From: Chad Brown <yandros@MIT.EDU>
To: Yoni Rabkin <yoni@rabkins.net>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: improving network utility calls in lisp/net/net-utils.el
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:42:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0766365C-9A72-4AD7-B808-B8DF141F105D@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <873acgqkk9.fsf@rabkins.net>
I suspect it comes down to usage patterns, but if something is wrong
(network-wise), then the following two things happen:
a) people are more likely to want to use the commands
b) the commands are more likely to hang, be slow, etc.
In particular, it's really not hard to get into a situation where dns
name resolution will fail, but won't give up for a couple minutes.
Nobody wants emacs to hang for two minutes to tell them that
something's broken, especially when they were originally asking
because something looked to be broken.
Back when I had to care about such things professionally, I took to
using a program called mtr to check on such situations. I would have
preferred to use something built into emacs, until the first time it
made emacs hang. Put another way, my former self would have been
quite happy to see your proposal as long as it didn't require
synchronized processes. I imagine that there are still quite a few
people in my former boat, so don't get discouraged. It shouldn't be
hard to made it work with an async process, and afterward you will
have learned (assuming you don't already know) something cool about
emacs.
Regardless, thanks for your efforts to improve emacs.
*chad
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-11 0:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-10 13:18 improving network utility calls in lisp/net/net-utils.el Yoni Rabkin
2009-04-10 13:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-04-10 14:09 ` Yoni Rabkin
2009-04-10 16:40 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-04-10 17:55 ` Yoni Rabkin
2009-04-10 20:10 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-04-10 21:13 ` Yoni Rabkin
2009-04-11 0:42 ` Chad Brown [this message]
2009-04-10 22:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-04-11 8:47 ` Yoni Rabkin
2009-04-11 9:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-04-11 9:17 ` Yoni Rabkin
2009-04-11 12:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-07-16 19:52 ` Yoni Rabkin
2009-07-26 8:02 ` Yoni Rabkin
2009-08-02 19:21 ` Yoni Rabkin
2009-08-02 22:34 ` Chong Yidong
2009-08-08 8:05 ` Yoni Rabkin
2009-08-08 18:27 ` Chong Yidong
2009-04-10 19:34 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-04-10 22:14 ` Stefan Monnier
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