From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: bshanks3@hotmail.com, 28542@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28542: Temporary failure in name resolution while quitting emacs
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2020 09:47:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o8jbxoml.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <837dq0gsc7.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 02 Dec 2020 17:06:48 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> > The ELisp manual says ab out kill-emacs-hook:
>> >
>> > Because ‘kill-emacs’ can be called in situations where user
>> > interaction is impossible (e.g., when the terminal is
>> > disconnected), functions on this hook should not attempt to
>> > interact with the user. If you want to interact with the user when
>> > Emacs is shutting down, use ‘kill-emacs-query-functions’, described
>> > below.
>> >
>> > So I don't think we can safely ask whether to continue.
>>
>> I don't quite interpret it that way -- this only says that if your
>> intention is to communicate with the user, then use
>> `kill-emacs-query-functions'.
>
> But your suggestion was to ask the user whether to continue -- doesn't
> that qualify as "communicating with the user"?
It does. But the manual talks about intent -- "if you want to interact"
-- but doesn't prohibit Emacs itself from interacting with the user.
Obviously an error doesn't happen by intent.
> Then perhaps waiting for the response for some finite time would cover
> the cases where the user cannot answer the question?
Do you mean in the noninteractive case? I don't propose to change
anything unless interactive.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-03 8:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-21 17:13 bug#28542: Temporary failure in name resolution while quitting emacs Baylis Shanks
2020-11-30 10:53 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-11-30 16:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-02 9:47 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-02 15:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-03 8:47 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2020-12-03 15:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-04 9:34 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-04 9:50 ` Robert Pluim
2020-12-04 18:41 ` Glenn Morris
2020-12-06 12:53 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-04 11:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-06 12:50 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-06 19:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-07 14:43 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-07 16:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-07 16:16 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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