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: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 10:40:20 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87txj64vbx.fsf@dex.adm.naquadah.org> <878v0g1l55.fsf@dex.adm.naquadah.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1375713641 25198 80.91.229.3 (5 Aug 2013 14:40:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2013 14:40:41 +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 Mon Aug 05 16:40:41 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 1V6Lxe-0004No-TW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Aug 2013 16:40:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33344 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V6Lxe-00065l-EQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Aug 2013 10:40:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42895) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V6LxV-00062q-0S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Aug 2013 10:40:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V6LxN-0004fR-O1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Aug 2013 10:40:28 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:19430) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V6LxN-0004fB-Kw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Aug 2013 10:40:21 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFFFxKix/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IfAQVWIxALNBIUGA0kiCTBLZEKA6R6gV6DEw X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFFFxKix/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IfAQVWIxALNBIUGA0kiCTBLZEKA6R6gV6DEw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="20590201" Original-Received: from 69-196-168-177.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.196.168.177]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 05 Aug 2013 10:40:14 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 7090462D8E; Mon, 5 Aug 2013 10:40:20 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <878v0g1l55.fsf@dex.adm.naquadah.org> (Julien Danjou's message of "Mon, 05 Aug 2013 12:34:30 +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:162432 Archived-At: > - connections will eventually time out (the kernel does have a TCP > timeout), and you will be able to reschedule the operation since you > used a queue. Which reminds me that I regularly have Gnus sessions where I get neither an answer nor a timeout after (much) more than 10 minutes. Stefan