[developers] Trying to operate on background stream : [incr tsdb()] affected as well

[Berthold Crysmann]

Ann Copestake wrote:
> for the LKB use at least, it might be worth trying `finish-output' instead of 
> `force-output'.  The difference, in theory, is that finish-output waits till 
> the output has happened before returning, while force-output is intended to 
> give things a push but to return immediately.  Despite this, from the Allegro 
> documentation, it looks as though they are implemented the same way, but then 
> it's interesting that you haven't seen any problems with the things that call 
> finish-output.  I'm afraid I don't have time to look at this right now, though.
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I've tried out finish-output instead of force-output, but to no avail. 
Error is the same...

B

> Ann
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> crysmann at dfki.de said:
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>> crysmann at dfki.de said:
>>    >> I've narrowed down the problem now: if I comment out (force-output t)
>> in >> read-tdl-type-files-aux and check-generator-environment the error >>
>> disappears.  >>      >
>> good!  the reason those `force-output's are there is just to give the user 
>> feedback about what's going on while it's going on (as opposed to some time 
>> later).  Commenting them out is not going to cause any big problems.
>> Although 
>> of course if Andreas can find an explanation/fix, that would be better! >
>>    It seems that [incr tsdb()] is also affected by Andreas's patch.
>> (force-output *tsdb-io*) in create-cache and flush-cache acts up now.
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>> Behaviour is exactly analogous to LKB, i.e., with Emacs it is bad,  without
>> (=tty), it is fine. Uncommenting solves the issue. To test: Invoke
>> Trees|Annotate from the menu... 
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