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Re: Reducing the sit-for time in w3m-process-wait-process



>> On  Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:41:00 +0100
>> deng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ( David Engster) said as follows:

>> I worry that the following change causes hang-up.
>> I had tried various values when implementing w3m-proc.el, and adpoted
>> the smalest value that did not cause hang-up of emacs.
>> Of course, the ideal value may depend on users' own enviroments.
>> I have no idea to decide the ideal value in safe way.

>Yes, I have occasionally observed those deadlocks when using very small
>values (like 0.01) in the sit-for command. I'd also guess it depends on
>the speed of the machine Emacs is running on.

Indeed.

I have just changed my mind, and agree accepting your change because we
cannot check whether it will cause deadlocks in general environments
without installing it.

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TSUCHIYA Masatoshi