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Re: call-process blocks the active thread
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: call-process blocks the active thread |
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Fri, 08 Sep 2017 10:01:13 +0300 |
> From: Elias Mårtenson <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 11:00:42 +0800
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> As it turns out, ‘call-process’ hangs all of Emacs while the external program
> is run.
No, it hangs the calling thread, and the other threads wait for the
calling thread to yield. To avoid that, use start-process instead.
This is not a bug.