Re: usr1-signal, usr2-signal, etc.

[David Kastrup]

YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <address@hidden> writes:

>>>>>> On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 14:08:09 +0100, address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) said:
>
>>> Currently we only have usr1 and usr2 signals, but if we add more
>>> (the "etc") later, this would be a cleaner interface for such
>>> extensions.
>
>> For example, we could handle SIGTERM, SIGHUP, and SIGQUIT like this
>> to allow a user to handle those signals in some other way:
>
> I'm concerned about the case that kbd_buffer_store_event_hold is
> called from the signal-handler context while it is also executed in
> the normal context.  This has already existed for SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2
> before your change, though.

SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 are, IIRC, new in Emacs 22.  So we have no "nobody
complained about that before" reason for allowing problems in that
manner.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum