# HG changeset patch
# User Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
# Date 1018205886 0
# Node ID 7e1a0877a1216fc94440279c2949d4e6779204a2
# Parent  4127620c27842b43fe1745693853b8328ab5cd97
Explain that sentinels cannot run recursively.

diff -r 4127620c2784 -r 7e1a0877a121 lispref/processes.texi
--- a/lispref/processes.texi	Sun Apr 07 18:56:34 2002 +0000
+++ b/lispref/processes.texi	Sun Apr 07 18:58:06 2002 +0000
@@ -1297,6 +1297,11 @@
 off.  This makes it possible to use the Lisp debugger to debug the
 sentinel.  @xref{Debugger}.
 
+  While a sentinel is running, the process sentinel is temporarily
+set to @code{nil} so that the sentinel won't run recursively.
+For this reason it is not possible for a sentinel to specify
+a new sentinel.
+
   In earlier Emacs versions, every sentinel that did regular expression
 searching or matching had to explicitly save and restore the match data.
 Now Emacs does this automatically for sentinels; they never need to do