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



>>>>> In [emacs-w3m : No.10544] TSUCHIYA Masatoshi wrote:
>>> 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.

I've installed the change.  Thank you!  If you all encounter a
trouble with this change, please let us know.

Regards,