From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Asynchronous DNS Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 15:49:23 +0200 Message-ID: <83fuwuxevw.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8760y055l1.fsf@gnus.org> <8660xzmyyr.fsf@realize.ch> <87pow7ocyw.fsf@gnus.org> <861t8nmxlj.fsf@realize.ch> <87y4auiurw.fsf@gnus.org> <86k2me8dee.fsf@realize.ch> <83a8n9ddk5.fsf@gnu.org> <864mdh8vj5.fsf@realize.ch> <87pow579kt.fsf@gnus.org> <86ziv87st0.fsf@realize.ch> <87vb5u4qtq.fsf@gnus.org> <86egci6xvk.fsf@realize.ch> <87twldgsrv.fsf@gnus.org> <8637sw7w4m.fsf@realize.ch> <87vb5sdod6.fsf@gnus.org> <83lh6nzvfp.fsf@gnu.org> <87fuwv6ai4.fsf@gnus.org> <86oabi6dts.fsf@realize.ch> <87wpq68u4d.fsf@gnus.org> <83lh6mxn5j.fsf@gnu.org> <86bn7i5j1v.fsf@realize.ch> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1455544188 28787 80.91.229.3 (15 Feb 2016 13:49:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 13:49:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alain Schneble Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 15 14:49:48 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 1aVJX7-0003r7-5C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Feb 2016 14:49:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60580 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aVJX6-0000NH-CT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Feb 2016 08:49:44 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49985) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aVJWk-0000I5-V7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Feb 2016 08:49:26 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aVJWg-0004C5-0U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Feb 2016 08:49:22 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:51269) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aVJWf-0004C1-TS; Mon, 15 Feb 2016 08:49:17 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1046 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aVJWf-0006QT-5c; Mon, 15 Feb 2016 08:49:17 -0500 In-reply-to: <86bn7i5j1v.fsf@realize.ch> (message from Alain Schneble on Mon, 15 Feb 2016 12:06:52 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:199972 Archived-At: > From: Alain Schneble > CC: Lars Ingebrigtsen , > Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 12:06:52 +0100 > > >> Uhm... I can't really imagine what it's used for at all. :-) Is it to > >> communicate to, for instance, a shell what the size of the Emacs window > >> is? > > > > Yes. > > This sounds like set-process-window-size could just return Qnil when > called on a network process. This would make the blocker in that > function obsolete. If the ioctl call issued by the implementation always fails on sockets, then yes.