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: MS-Windows build broken in Fmake_network_process Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 11:12:53 +0300 Message-ID: <83fx3kg8ze.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83634jglab.fsf@gnu.org> <831vf7ge57.fsf@gnu.org> <83y6hfeyzw.fsf@gnu.org> <83vdcig87f.fsf@gnu.org> <87k4sywpvv.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <83tys2fbxs.fsf@gnu.org> <87hbo1iubm.fsf@home.jasonrumney.net> <83ljddg0w9.fsf@gnu.org> <87wrwwsxwo.fsf@home.jasonrumney.net> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1269764017 3533 80.91.229.12 (28 Mar 2010 08:13:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 08:13:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jason Rumney Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 28 10:13:33 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NvncO-0003LN-UW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 10:13:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35444 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NvncC-0004C8-6y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 04:13:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nvnc5-0004Br-P9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 04:12:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=39452 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nvnc3-0004BM-TO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 04:12:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nvnc2-0002tN-LN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 04:12:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:58616) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nvnc2-0002tB-EE; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 04:12:50 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KZZ00500G2W7S00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 11:12:48 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.176.135]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KZZ0050VG5C9200@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 11:12:48 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87wrwwsxwo.fsf@home.jasonrumney.net> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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:122788 Archived-At: > From: Jason Rumney > Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 15:33:43 +0800 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > >> We already use functions from ws2. I think effort was made in the past > >> to dynamically load it when required, because network support was not > >> always installed on early versions of Windows 95, and because loading > >> the library at startup caused a dialup dialog to pop up when the default > >> network connection was a dialup connection. Neither of these is > >> probably a concern anymore, so it might be better to simplify the code > >> by with linking ws2 normally. > > > > How is this not a concern anymore? We didn't stop supporting > > Windows 9X, did we? > > Does anyone still install it without ticking the networking support box, > as was still common in 1995? Is there any good way of finding this out? If not, we will probably never know. And what about old installations -- they could still want to upgrade their Emacs. What about the issue that led to the code in question -- do you know if `connect' can be interrupted by C-g on Windows? Do you have an opinion about applicability of that code to Windows?