Re: wait_reading_process_ouput hangs in certain cases (w/ patches)

[Stefan Monnier]

> I absolutely agree but quite honestly I was convinced I would get
> negative feedback if I did put it in a function of its own, given
> how the rest of wait_... looked and in general. So I went with the
> duplicated code for exactly that reason.

Many Emacs functions (especially in the C code) are much too large.
Don't take this as a hint that your code should aim for functions to be
as long as possible.
On the contrary, making them shorter by moving some of their code to
separate functions is welcome.


        Stefan