# HG changeset patch
# User Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
# Date 867544476 0
# Node ID 668304de6f92705755028a0f9ebbcfb6f05428dc
# Parent  bf0d449581c860d00f143bde91c1a0fff0a78cc6
(wait_reading_process_input): If wait_for_cell,
do check for keyboard input and swallow events, just don't exit.
(max): New macro.
(wait_reading_process_input): Pass a smaller first arg to select.

diff -r bf0d449581c8 -r 668304de6f92 src/process.c
--- a/src/process.c	Sun Jun 29 00:33:39 1997 +0000
+++ b/src/process.c	Sun Jun 29 00:34:36 1997 +0000
@@ -107,6 +107,8 @@
 #include "frame.h"
 #include "blockinput.h"
 
+#define max(a, b) ((a) > (b) ? (a) : (b))
+
 Lisp_Object Qprocessp;
 Lisp_Object Qrun, Qstop, Qsignal, Qopen, Qclosed;
 Lisp_Object Qlast_nonmenu_event;
@@ -2288,7 +2290,8 @@
 	{
 	  Atemp = input_wait_mask;
 	  EMACS_SET_SECS_USECS (timeout, 0, 0);
-	  if ((select (MAXDESC, &Atemp, (SELECT_TYPE *)0, (SELECT_TYPE *)0,
+	  if ((select (max (max_process_desc, max_keyboard_desc) + 1,
+		       &Atemp, (SELECT_TYPE *)0, (SELECT_TYPE *)0,
 		       &timeout)
 	       <= 0))
 	    {
@@ -2349,7 +2352,8 @@
 	  FD_ZERO (&Available);
 	}
       else
-	nfds = select (MAXDESC, &Available, (SELECT_TYPE *)0, (SELECT_TYPE *)0,
+	nfds = select (max (max_process_desc, max_keyboard_desc) + 1,
+		       &Available, (SELECT_TYPE *)0, (SELECT_TYPE *)0,
 		       &timeout);
 
       xerrno = errno;
@@ -2445,21 +2449,20 @@
 	  && requeued_events_pending_p ())
 	break;
 
-#if 0
       /* If wait_for_cell. check for keyboard input
 	 but don't run any timers.
-	 ??? (It seems wrong to me to check for keyboard
-	 input at all when wait_for_cell, but the code
-	 has been this way since July 1994.
-	 Try changing this after version 19.31.)  */
+	 The reason for this is so that X events will be processed.
+	 Otherwise they may have to wait until polling takes place.
+	 That would causes delays in pasting selections, for example.  */
       if (wait_for_cell
 	  && detect_input_pending ())
 	{
 	  swallow_events (do_display);
+#if 0  /* Exiting when read_kbd doesn't request that seems wrong, though.  */
 	  if (detect_input_pending ())
 	    break;
+#endif
 	}
-#endif
 
       /* Exit now if the cell we're waiting for became non-nil.  */
       if (wait_for_cell && ! NILP (*wait_for_cell))