From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 22493@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22493: 25.1.50; open-gnutls-stream doesn't respect :nowait, so the connections are synchronous
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2016 18:57:41 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mvremft6.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83io22tgxk.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 06 Feb 2016 09:51:35 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> That is only true if the foreground program has something useful to do
> while TLS negotiation goes on. You have a very particular application
> in mind (a browser) where you can just let user scroll through the
> rest of the buffer
Yes, that's the use case these changes are for.
> IOW, your changes might make sense for some small set of applications,
> but for the others it's just a major complication in the code base
> with no real gains.
>
> We shouldn't make such major changes in low-level code when they
> benefit only a small class of applications, IMO.
Well, web browsers and news and mail readers aren't a small class of
applications when it comes to the network layer. They are the majority
of the applications. :-) Having rmail pause Emacs while it's fetching
HTML assets, while you just want to go to the next message, is not good
user interface design.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-30 4:00 bug#22493: 25.1.50; open-gnutls-stream doesn't respect :nowait, so the connections are synchronous Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-01-30 4:45 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-01-30 9:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-30 22:55 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-01-31 0:40 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-01-31 1:10 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-01-31 16:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-31 15:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-31 23:17 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-01 2:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-01 3:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-01 4:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-01 18:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-02 1:43 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-02 16:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-03 1:10 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-03 1:58 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-03 15:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-04 2:47 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-04 16:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-05 2:36 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-05 7:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-05 7:34 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-05 9:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-06 3:03 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-06 7:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-06 7:57 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2016-02-03 15:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-04 2:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-01-31 15:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
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