From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Asynchronous DNS Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 09:55:40 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <56C8A89C.4020909@cs.ucla.edu> References: <87wpqpjgwy.fsf@gnus.org> <83a8nk1cxk.fsf@gnu.org> <87h9hrnc8x.fsf@gnus.org> <83powfzsqt.fsf@gnu.org> <87y4b393hl.fsf@gnus.org> <83io27ytu3.fsf@gnu.org> <87k2mmzkry.fsf@gnus.org> <83k2mlyet8.fsf@gnu.org> <87lh71nriy.fsf@gnus.org> <8637t8opla.fsf@realize.ch> <871t8skg6c.fsf@gnus.org> <86y4b0n5q2.fsf@realize.ch> <87fux7gb7o.fsf@gnus.org> <83wpqjvd2f.fsf@gnu.org> <87zivfobn4.fsf@gnus.org> <86y4ao5g1c.fsf@realize.ch> <87r3ggdo9f.fsf@gnus.org> <86twlb5yl4.fsf@realize.ch> <83d1rzz1mu.fsf@gnu.org> <86egcc49qu.fsf@realize.ch> <87io1k41cg.fsf@gnus.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1455990971 13656 80.91.229.3 (20 Feb 2016 17:56:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 17:56:11 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 20 18:56:04 2016 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 1aXBlD-00086E-T5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 18:56:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34549 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXBlC-0000L5-Sp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 12:56:02 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57478) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXBky-0000Ko-Mh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 12:55:49 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXBkt-0003vB-Nx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 12:55:48 -0500 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:44441) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXBkt-0003uv-AA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 12:55:43 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id E024F160FF0 for ; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 09:55:41 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id pgKGoF1WoKx5 for ; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 09:55:41 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11DF7160FF1 for ; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 09:55:41 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id VDUITrFbd7Wu for ; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 09:55:40 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (pool-100-32-155-148.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [100.32.155.148]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E1860160FF0 for ; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 09:55:40 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.1 In-Reply-To: <87io1k41cg.fsf@gnus.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 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:200330 Archived-At: Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote: > I had assumed that getaddrinfo_a would have the normal timeouts that > getaddrinfo has -- that it would say that it's failed after a certain > number of seconds. Some testing here (switching off the wifi after > issuing a DNS request) seems to indicate that that may not be the case? My (admittedly limited) understanding is that getaddrinfo_a doesn't timeout, and that the normal way to specify timeouts is via gai_suspend.