RE: [ECB-list] emacs stalls for a long time while trying ecb-stealthy-updates

[<kla...@sd...>]

First of all you can switch off the stealthy updates...

I know this problem in general - the emacs-devel version has a new macro
`while-no-input' which could be used to enable ECB/Emacs to
interrupt each long-lasting operation by any key- or mouse-press.

But because this macro is not in the official-release ECB does not
currently use this macro - but maybe it would be worth the effort...

Ciao,
Klaus

Klaus Zeitler wrote:
> The following is probably more an emacs than an ecb problem.
> emacs seems to stall when I activate ecb and load a file.
>=20
> gdb shows the following function and backtrace:
>=20
> directory_files_internal (directory=3D16076323, full=3D3313665,
>     match=3D3313665, nosort=3D3313713, attrs=3D0, id_format=3D3313665)
>     at /vol/freeware/cvs/emacs/head/emacs/src/dired.c:226
> 226           if (dp =3D=3D NULL && errno =3D=3D EAGAIN)
> (gdb) p directory
> $1 =3D 16076323
> (gdb) pr
> "/vol/cld_scratch"
>=20
> (gdb) xbacktrace
> "directory-files"
> "apply"
> "ecb-directory-files"
> "ecb-check-emptyness-of-dir"
> "ecb-stealthy-empty-dir-check"
> "ecb-stealthy-updates"
> "apply"
> "byte-code"
> "timer-event-handler"
>=20
> The culprit BTW is a mount point to a VAX cluster that e.g. need 20
> minutes to respond to a ls command.
>=20
> Unfortunately C-g doesn't work during stealthy update. But as I said
> above, I think this is more an emacs problem and I'm going to report
> this to emacs-devel.
>=20
>>  Klaus Zeitler      Lucent Technologies  |
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