From: npostavs@users.sourceforge.net
To: Richard Copley <rcopley@gmail.com>
Cc: 27658@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27658: 26.0.50; response parsing hangs when using tls.el and gnutls-cli.exe on Windows
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 08:09:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wp7deu0h.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPM58ojp_Eyj58-g2YiJ0LwCzEv0_ntoWQSp3oo=Ve_4ROKprg@mail.gmail.com> (Richard Copley's message of "Wed, 12 Jul 2017 11:10:17 +0100")
Richard Copley <rcopley@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> In https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=23759#8 Eli said:
>>
>> TLS connections on MS-Windows are supported via the GnuTLS library.
>> External TLS programs will never work correctly on Windows, since
>> they use signals to communicate with Emacs. So there's little sense
>> in fixing this issue, because the result will not work anyway.
>>
>
> I see, thank you.
> That's a lot of hours I'll never get back. No big deal! But a little comment
> near the top of "tls.el", or somewhere, to let people know not to bother,
> would be nice.
Hmm, and I see that #15905 was closed as wontfix too, so it's basically
unsupported at this point even on GNU/Linux platforms. We should mark
it as obsolete at least, if not remove it entirely.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-12 12:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-11 22:18 bug#27658: 26.0.50; response parsing hangs when using tls.el and gnutls-cli.exe on Windows Richard Copley
2017-07-12 0:17 ` npostavs
2017-07-12 10:10 ` Richard Copley
2017-07-12 12:09 ` npostavs [this message]
2017-07-13 2:42 ` Richard Copley
2017-07-13 15:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-13 17:06 ` Richard Copley
2017-07-14 9:16 ` Robert Pluim
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