From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: New patch for server sockets and datagram (UDP) support. Date: 13 Mar 2002 16:12:24 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <5xg034ec2v.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> References: <5xwux64cxe.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <5xg03pyyo3.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <5xadtvuodz.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <200202280408.g1S48QG19264@aztec.santafe.edu> <5xvgchkui4.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <200203012123.g21LNvS20494@aztec.santafe.edu> <5xofi1p7cz.fsf_-_@kfs2.cua.dk> <5xg03cprxi.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <200203071518.QAA17238@xaital.online-marketwatch.com> <5xvgc8nyw0.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <200203071732.SAA17748@xaital.online-marketwatch.com> <5x4rjsylom.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <200203080738.IAA21409@xaital.online-marketwatch.com> <200203082107.g28L7Tn03359@wijiji.santafe.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1016032351 27427 127.0.0.1 (13 Mar 2002 15:12:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 15:12:31 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16lAQY-00078H-00 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 16:12:30 +0100 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16lATE-0007BR-00 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 16:15:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16lAQH-000463-00; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 10:12:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.filanet.dk ([195.215.206.179]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16lAPY-00042g-00 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 10:11:28 -0500 Original-Received: from kfs2.cua.dk.cua.dk (kfs2.local.filanet.dk [192.168.1.182]) by mail.filanet.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id A76FC7C047; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 15:11:24 +0000 (GMT) Original-To: helmut@212186011228.11.tuwien.teleweb.at, emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <200203082107.g28L7Tn03359@wijiji.santafe.edu> Original-Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2.50 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:1911 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:1911 Richard Stallman writes: > > > The following special call returns t iff a given KEY VALUE > > pair is supported on this system: > > (make-network-process :feature KEY VALUE) */) > > Hmm... this looks a bit strange. Can you give some examples? > Especially, what do you supply as VALUE? > > That usage seems like a kludge to me. What exactly is it trying to > solve? Would it work to simply try this combination of args, catch > the error that you get if it isn't supported, and try another method? Well, there are many combinations of things that may or may not work. This provides a simple way to check in advance whether a given feature is _supposed_ to work on this system. If it then fails, something more fundamental is wrong. -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel