# HG changeset patch # User wenzelm # Date 1385828760 -3600 # Node ID e38592fa283098542c951415c1b9dbfd56e39332 # Parent 07ee041537a52cd064900c3dae93a85b750db8f0 NEWS; diff -r 07ee041537a5 -r e38592fa2830 NEWS --- a/NEWS Sat Nov 30 16:07:00 2013 +0100 +++ b/NEWS Sat Nov 30 17:26:00 2013 +0100 @@ -16,6 +16,14 @@ accidentally (via physical event or Poly/ML runtime system signal, e.g. out-of-memory). + +*** System *** + +* More robust termination of external processes managed by +Isabelle/ML: support cancellation of tasks in within the range of +milliseconds, as required for PIDE document editing with add-on tools +(e.g. auto Sledgehammer). + * Reactivated Isabelle/Scala kill command for external processes on Mac OS X, which was accidentally broken in Isabelle2013-1 due to a workaround for some Debian/Ubuntu Linux versions from 2013.