From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Pretest? Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:05:10 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87k5y83e3a.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87zm6wmt4s.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1174298762 24011 80.91.229.12 (19 Mar 2007 10:06:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:06:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: piet@cs.uu.nl, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 19 11:05:57 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HTEk9-0005P0-Un for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:05:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HTElc-0005tt-Lz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Mar 2007 05:07:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HTElY-0005s5-Op for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Mar 2007 06:07:00 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HTElW-0005qi-Vo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Mar 2007 06:06:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HTElW-0005qd-G2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Mar 2007 05:06:58 -0500 Original-Received: from pfepb.post.tele.dk ([195.41.46.236]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HTEk3-0008Do-MS; Mon, 19 Mar 2007 06:05:27 -0400 Original-Received: from kfs-l.imdomain.dk.cua.dk (unknown [80.165.4.124]) by pfepb.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id D6F0DA5009A; Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:05:15 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: (YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu's message of "Mon\, 19 Mar 2007 18\:53\:54 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.95 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:68090 Archived-At: YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu writes: >> I am not familiar with getaddrinfo. Why do users want to be able to >> interrupt it? Is that because it communicates with a DNS server? > > I'm not certain about that, but I guess the assignments to > immediate_quit were copied from those around gethostbyname when the > getaddrinfo support was added. At least gethostbyname can potentially block for 3 minutes (waiting for DNS responses) - so I assumed getaddrinfo could do the same. -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk