bug#19860: 25.0.50; One url-retrieve-synchronously call running concurrently with another can freeze it

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:

> This applies both to master and emacs-24 (with a caveat).
>
> With sufficiently suitable server, calling long-ops-now or long-ops-idle
> can lead to the "outer" request never returning:
>
> (defun long-ops-idle ()
>   (interactive)
>   (run-with-idle-timer 0.2 nil #'long-outer-op)
>   (run-with-idle-timer 0.5 nil #'long-inner-op))
>
> (defun long-ops-now ()
>   (interactive)
>   (run-with-timer 0.2 nil #'long-inner-op)
>   (long-outer-op))
>
> (defun long-outer-op ()
>   (message "retrieving outer")
>   (url-retrieve-synchronously "http://localhost:9292";)
>   (message "outer retrieved"))
>
> (defun long-inner-op ()
>   (message "retrieving inner")
>   (url-retrieve-synchronously "http://localhost:9292";)
>   (message "inner retrieved"))
>
> The window freezes, the last message in the echo area being "inner
> retrieved" (but C-g breaks out of it, and if we're calling
> `long-ops-idle', the "outer" request succeeds, too).

It's unclear from the bug thread whether this is still a problem or
not...  Are you still seeing this?

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