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- /* blockinput.h - interface to blocking complicated interrupt-driven input.
- Copyright (C) 1989, 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-
- This file is part of GNU Emacs.
-
- GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
- any later version.
-
- GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
- GNU General Public License for more details.
-
- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to
- the Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. */
-
-
- /* When Emacs is using signal-driven input, the processing of those
- input signals can get pretty hairy. For example, when Emacs is
- running under X windows, handling an input signal can entail
- retrieving events from the X event queue, or making other X calls.
-
- If an input signal occurs while Emacs is in the midst of some
- non-reentrant code, and the signal processing invokes that same
- code, we lose. For example, malloc and the Xlib functions aren't
- usually re-entrant, and both are used by the X input signal handler
- - if we try to process an input signal in the midst of executing
- any of these functions, we'll lose.
-
- To avoid this, we make the following requirements:
-
- * Everyone must evaluate BLOCK_INPUT before entering these functions,
- and then call UNBLOCK_INPUT after performing them. Calls
- BLOCK_INPUT and UNBLOCK_INPUT may be nested.
-
- * Any complicated interrupt handling code should test
- interrupt_input_blocked, and put off its work until later.
-
- * If the interrupt handling code wishes, it may set
- interrupt_input_pending to a non-zero value. If that flag is set
- when input becomes unblocked, UNBLOCK_INPUT will send a new SIGIO. */
-
- extern int interrupt_input_blocked;
-
- /* Nonzero means an input interrupt has arrived
- during the current critical section. */
- extern int interrupt_input_pending;
-
- /* Begin critical section. */
- #define BLOCK_INPUT (interrupt_input_blocked++)
-
- /* End critical section.
-
- If doing signal-driven input, and a signal came in when input was
- blocked, reinvoke the signal handler now to deal with it.
-
- We used to have two possible definitions of this macro - one for
- when SIGIO was #defined, and one for when it wasn't; when SIGIO
- wasn't #defined, we wouldn't bother to check if we should re-invoke
- the signal handler. But that doesn't work very well; some of the
- files which use this macro don't #include the right files to get
- SIGIO.
-
- So, we always test interrupt_input_pending now; that's not too
- expensive, and it'll never get set if we don't need to resignal. */
- #define UNBLOCK_INPUT \
- (interrupt_input_blocked--, \
- (interrupt_input_blocked < 0 ? (abort (), 0) : 0), \
- ((interrupt_input_blocked == 0 && interrupt_input_pending != 0) \
- ? (reinvoke_input_signal (), 0) \
- : 0))
-
- #define TOTALLY_UNBLOCK_INPUT (interrupt_input_blocked = 0)
- #define UNBLOCK_INPUT_RESIGNAL UNBLOCK_INPUT
-