From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Determining whether a TCP connection is up Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 17:32:26 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87txj64vbx.fsf@dex.adm.naquadah.org> <878v0g1l55.fsf@dex.adm.naquadah.org> <87zjsvxkur.fsf@dex.adm.naquadah.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1375824771 4601 80.91.229.3 (6 Aug 2013 21:32:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2013 21:32:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 06 23:32:53 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V6os8-0000nJ-7x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Aug 2013 23:32:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53119 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V6os7-0001WM-F8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Aug 2013 17:32:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33296) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V6orw-0001JM-Ki for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Aug 2013 17:32:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V6ork-0002NO-3U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Aug 2013 17:32:40 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:8066) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V6orj-0002NC-W5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Aug 2013 17:32:28 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFFLd/Nq/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjEAs0EhQYDSSIHgaxH5AOjReDcwOkeoFegxM X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFFLd/Nq/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjEAs0EhQYDSSIHgaxH5AOjReDcwOkeoFegxM X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="20711932" Original-Received: from 75-119-243-106.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([75.119.243.106]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 06 Aug 2013 17:32:20 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id B4B6A66100; Tue, 6 Aug 2013 17:32:26 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Tue, 06 Aug 2013 15:36:06 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.182 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:162452 Archived-At: >> 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