Should ask-user-about-supersession-threat be aware of noninteractive ? (emacs -batch)

[richard...@mitel.com]

I'm not sure if this is a bug or not.

When running emacs -batch, if a function modifies a buffer and calls save-buffer and there is another emacs -batch also updating the same file, one of them can call ask-user-about-supersession-threat [in userlock.el].

This causes the emacs process to hang because read-char-choice never returns. (I have a traceback which I could post but is lengthy (91 levels!); it ends at pselect and frame 2 is wait_reading_process_output.)

This happened when running make -j 6 and I changed the scenario to not happen, but I wondered if ask-user-about-supersession-threat should be act upon variable noninteractive.

Or is one supposed to supply a replacement for ask-user-about-supersession-threat if running emacs in batch mode?

Thanks,
Richard

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[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 12:50:57 -0800 (PST)
> From: richard...@mitel.com
> Injection-Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2016 20:50:57 +0000

>
> I'm not sure if this is a bug or not.
>
> When running emacs -batch, if a function modifies a buffer and calls save-buffer and there is another emacs -batch also updating the same file, one of them can call ask-user-about-supersession-threat [in userlock.el].
>
> This causes the emacs process to hang because read-char-choice never returns. (I have a traceback which I could post but is lengthy (91 levels!); it ends at pselect and frame 2 is wait_reading_process_output.)
>
> This happened when running make -j 6 and I changed the scenario to not happen, but I wondered if ask-user-about-supersession-threat should be act upon variable noninteractive.
>
> Or is one supposed to supply a replacement for ask-user-about-supersession-threat if running emacs in batch mode?

Please report this (with that traceback, please) using
report-emacs-bug. It's possible that
ask-user-about-supersession-threat should always provide an automatic
response in batch mode.

Thanks.