Re: igc, macOS avoiding signals

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2024 14:19:44 +0000
> From: Pip Cet <pipcet@protonmail.com>
> Cc: Helmut Eller <eller.helmut@gmail.com>, gerd.moellmann@gmail.com, 
> spd@toadstyle.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > Once again, why not ask the MPS folks to give us a callback?  Or maybe
> > we could try hacking MPS ourselves first, to see if that does the job,
> > and ask them then?
> 
> I'm not sure what your suggestion is at this point, sorry.  You said in
> another email not too long ago that you wanted to improve the current
> code by special-casing "simple" signals; I agreed; now you appear to be
> saying we should wait for an MPS modification.

There are several possible alternative ways of solving these issues.
Moreover, it could be that we prefer different solutions for different
signals.  A callback, if MPS would let us have it, could allow
delaying the signal processing (or most of it) till we are safe to
touch data.