Re: Mutual exclusion in Emacs

[David Kastrup]

Matthieu Moy <MatthieuNOSPAM.Moy@imag.fr.invalid> writes:

> How  is concurrency  managed in  Emacs?  I know  there's no  threading
> support, but since you can launch several asynchronous processes, with
> process sentinels, is there a risk that a process sentinel preempt the
> non-process-sentinel  code   being  executed,  or   another  processes
> sentinel. 
> 
> If so, is there a way  to guaranty mutual exclusion if all the process
> sentinels access a common ressource? 

Is there anything wrong with the Elisp manual?  I thought it was
explained pretty thoroughly just at what points of time sentinels may
get run.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum