From 49eeb133acaa1731f7b2122c4c3247015b9f6b39 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bjorn Winckler <bjorn.winckler@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 20:00:02 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add comment on DO timeouts

---
 src/MacVim/MMBackend.m | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/MacVim/MMBackend.m b/src/MacVim/MMBackend.m
index 998096176e..c316d79a21 100644
--- a/src/MacVim/MMBackend.m
+++ b/src/MacVim/MMBackend.m
@@ -336,6 +336,11 @@ extern GuiFont gui_mch_retain_font(GuiFont font);
         appProxy = [[connection rootProxy] retain];
         [appProxy setProtocolForProxy:@protocol(MMAppProtocol)];
 
+        // NOTE: We do not set any new timeout values for the connection to the
+        // frontend.  This means that if the frontend is "stuck" (e.g. in a
+        // modal loop) then any calls to the frontend will block indefinitely
+        // (the default timeouts are huge).
+
         int pid = [[NSProcessInfo processInfo] processIdentifier];
 
         identifier = [appProxy connectBackend:self pid:pid];