On Sun, 08 Apr 2012 13:46:56 -0400 Thomas Fitzsimmons <fitzsim@fitzsim.org> wrote: 

TF> The loop happens when the GnuTLS handshake fails for some reason, within
TF> a network process.  I use the attached patch to limit the number of
TF> iterations.  I'm not familiar enough with the Emacs process code to
TF> suggest a fix though.

Thanks again for the help and provided patch.  I modified it to keep the
number of handshakes tried per connection, not globally.  Please try
it.  I will also propose it on emacs-devel for inclusion in the upcoming
24.1 release.

Ted