Dan Nicolaescu skrev:
Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Cc: [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > From: Dan Nicolaescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 09:59:31 -0700
> >
> > > . The blink-cursor mode uses a timer (that probably explains setitmer
> > > and SIGALRM)
> > >
> > > . select calls are issued when Emacs enters the idle loop
> > >
> > > . The rest might be because the blink-cursor mode causes signals,
> > > which then require various system calls, like select, to be
> > > restarted
> >
> >
> > The same thing happens when blink-cursor-mode is turned off. It is a
> > bit less frequent, but still a few times a second.
>
> You mean, you still have setitimer and SIGALRMs, even without
> blink-cursor-mode?
Yes, that's exactly what I mean.
The lucid and lesstif/Motif builds have a 0.1 timer that runs all the time.
This is to detect timeouts done by Xt. Maybe this is what you see?
Jan D.
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