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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Determining whether a TCP connection is up
Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 17:32:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv7gfya4ls.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3iozj3prt.fsf@stories.gnus.org> (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Tue, 06 Aug 2013 15:36:06 +0200")

>> Weirdly enough, Gnus is the only one to show such issues, whereas I
>> can't recall ever having this problem in mutt nor seeing it in Evolution
>> or Thunderbird. And I don't believe in magic.
> My guess would be that they implement timeouts.  Which is the tedious
> work I had hoped not to have to do.

Another option is to kill connections after some time of inactivity,
rather than leave them open and suffer a timeout next time we need to
use it.


        Stefan



  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-06 21:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-03 12:30 Determining whether a TCP connection is up Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-03 14:09 ` Paul Eggert
2013-08-03 16:01 ` Julien Danjou
2013-08-05  2:12   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-05  2:33     ` chad
2013-08-05  2:37       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-05 10:34     ` Julien Danjou
2013-08-05 14:40       ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-05 15:23         ` Thierry Volpiatto
2013-08-05 15:51         ` Julien Danjou
2013-08-05 17:55       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-06  8:51         ` Julien Danjou
2013-08-06  9:59           ` joakim
2013-08-06 13:36           ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-06 21:32             ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2013-08-12 17:09               ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-13  1:52                 ` Stefan Monnier

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