Re: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r106464: Fix asynchrounous GnuTLS socket handling on some versions of the GnuTLS library.

Re: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r106464: Fix asynchrounous GnuTLS socket handling on some versions of the GnuTLS library.

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

>   Some versions of the GnuTLS library doesn't respons to poll reliably.
>   Work around this by checking all GnuTLS sockets explicitly from the
>   idle loop.

As previously discussed, I've now applied the patch.  If anybody has a
less icky way of dealing with this issue, that would be nice, though.

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Re: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r106464: Fix asynchrounous GnuTLS socket handling on some versions of the GnuTLS library.

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Some versions of the GnuTLS library doesn't respons to poll reliably.
>> Work around this by checking all GnuTLS sockets explicitly from the
>> idle loop.
> As previously discussed, I've now applied the patch.  If anybody has a
> less icky way of dealing with this issue, that would be nice, though.

Also if the code could be conditionalized on the problematic gnutls
version (or at least include a comment explaining which gnutls versions
are affected or a link to a gnutls bug-report about it, or something)
that would be *really* handy, so that 10 years from now we can decide
whether it can be removed.


        Stefan

Re: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r106464: Fix asynchrounous GnuTLS socket handling on some versions of the GnuTLS library.

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> Also if the code could be conditionalized on the problematic gnutls
> version (or at least include a comment explaining which gnutls versions
> are affected or a link to a gnutls bug-report about it, or something)
> that would be *really* handy, so that 10 years from now we can decide
> whether it can be removed.

The version I'm seeing the problem with is with 2.12.14-3 (Debian
wheezy).  I'll add a comment about that.  I can try to add some autoconf
logic, too, but my autoconf-fu is weak.  (And I don't really know what
the range of affected versions are...)

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  bloggy blog http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/

Re: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r106464: Fix asynchrounous GnuTLS socket handling on some versions of the GnuTLS library.

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Also if the code could be conditionalized on the problematic gnutls
>> version (or at least include a comment explaining which gnutls versions
>> are affected or a link to a gnutls bug-report about it, or something)
>> that would be *really* handy, so that 10 years from now we can decide
>> whether it can be removed.
> The version I'm seeing the problem with is with 2.12.14-3 (Debian
> wheezy).  I'll add a comment about that.

Thanks.

> I can try to add some autoconf logic, too, but my autoconf-fu is weak.
> (And I don't really know what the range of affected versions are...)

I don't think we know enough about the problem to make autoconf
rules, indeed.  But we should open a bug-report with the gnutls guys and
point to that bug-report from a comment in the code.


        Stefan