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: Fri, 05 Feb 2016 09:21:53 +0200 Message-ID: <83twlnvcz2.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87si1gx6wz.fsf@gnus.org> <86y4b5zvzt.fsf@gmail.com> <8760y9kwrk.fsf@gnus.org> <8760y7nag7.fsf@gnus.org> <83oabzzsjq.fsf@gnu.org> <87fuxazkfe.fsf@gnus.org> <83io25yeqk.fsf@gnu.org> <87h9hpnreg.fsf@gnus.org> <83y4b0wi7m.fsf@gnu.org> <87si17evk6.fsf@gnus.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1454656951 18630 80.91.229.3 (5 Feb 2016 07:22:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2016 07:22:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: andrewjmoreton@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 05 08:22:30 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 1aRair-0002hP-Qh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Feb 2016 08:22:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46445 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aRair-0007Sw-4X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Feb 2016 02:22:29 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53144) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aRaiY-0007Sh-J0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Feb 2016 02:22:12 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aRaiU-0004zH-Ku for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Feb 2016 02:22:10 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:36057) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aRaiU-0004zD-HE; Fri, 05 Feb 2016 02:22:06 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1184 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aRaiT-0001lJ-P0; Fri, 05 Feb 2016 02:22:06 -0500 In-reply-to: <87si17evk6.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Fri, 05 Feb 2016 13:32:25 +1100) 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:199360 Archived-At: > From: Lars Ingebrigtsen > Cc: andrewjmoreton@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2016 13:32:25 +1100 > > > But even then, an application that just specifies this and doesn't > > make any other changes in the code structure might become broken. > > Yes, so applications that request async DNS would presumably know that > they've done so and program accordingly (i.e., wait until the state > changes to the appropriate state before talking to the process). How can an application guess that requesting async DNS gets them much more than they asked for?