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: gnus makes emacs lose response Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 16:51:57 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1145479965 27853 80.91.229.2 (19 Apr 2006 20:52:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 20:52:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 19 22:52:42 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FWJeu-00010v-Cd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 22:52:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FWJet-0000Vy-TP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 16:52:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FWJeh-0000Vj-AU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 16:52:07 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FWJeg-0000VX-Ut for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 16:52:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FWJeg-0000VU-Ld for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 16:52:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [132.204.24.67] (helo=mercure.iro.umontreal.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FWJfr-0006uy-PQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 16:53:19 -0400 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 080372CF495; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 16:52:06 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from asado.iro.umontreal.ca (asado.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.24.84]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02767445C; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 16:51:58 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by asado.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id E4E9271523; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 16:51:57 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: Ralf Angeli In-Reply-To: (Ralf Angeli's message of "Wed, 19 Apr 2006 22:18:47 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-2.82, requis 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -2.82) X-DIRO-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:53102 Archived-At: >>> Lisp Backtrace: >>> "accept-process-output" >>> "imap-wait-for-tag" >>> "nnimap-retrieve-groups" >>> "gnus-retrieve-groups" >> >> Is there anything else I can do to help debugging this? [...] > After some messing around I found the difference between between both > cases. Under Windows the process (e.g. openssl s_client) dies as soon > as the modem connection is closed while on GNU/Linux it is kept alive. [...] > I am not sure what the right course of action on GNU/Linux would be to > remedy the problem. Should programs like openssl die when the > internet connection is being closed? Or renegotiate a connection? Note that even if openssl doesn't die and hangs, it shouldn't cause Emacs to freeze. I.e. it is important to make sure that C-g works. Stefan