Re: Concurrency via isolated process/thread

[Ihor Radchenko]

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

>> interrupt_input_blocked is more tricky. But it is just one global state
>> variable. Surely we can find a solution to make it work with multiple 
>> threads.
>
> interrupt_input_blocked should only be relevant to the thread reading
> input, i.e. the main thread.

So, we can hold when interrupt_input_blocked is changed until the thread
becomes main thread?

> The problem with buffer modification lies in two threads writing to the
> same buffer at the same time, changing not only the buffer text, but
> also PT, ZV, GPT, its markers and its overlay lists.  No two threads may
> be allowed to modify the buffer simultaneously.

Hmm. What about locking thread->current_buffer for all other threads?
This appears to solve the majority of the discussed problems.

I am not sure how to deal with buffer->pt for multiple threads running
in the same buffer.

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