From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Async DNS redux Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:24:27 +0100 Message-ID: <87wr7zz5p0.fsf@gnus.org> References: <87ty3494yb.fsf@gnus.org> <877gzzd5ud.fsf@gnus.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1328585094 6859 80.91.229.3 (7 Feb 2012 03:24:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 03:24:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 07 04:24:54 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Rubfp-00027b-Oc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:24:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50405 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rubfp-0001VI-4c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:24:53 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:59861) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rubfm-0001VC-Kj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:24:51 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rubfl-00058Y-9K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:24:50 -0500 Original-Received: from hermes.netfonds.no ([80.91.224.195]:53233) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rubfl-00058M-4J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:24:49 -0500 Original-Received: from 93-41-188-50.ip82.fastwebnet.it ([93.41.188.50] helo=rusty) by hermes.netfonds.no with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RubfX-0005G9-Qr; Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:24:36 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:05:39 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130002 (Ma Gnus v0.2) Emacs/24.0.93 (gnu/linux) X-MailScanner-ID: 1RubfX-0005G9-Qr MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1329189876.45369@nOQRtQ/WzKnefnQBhXbWZg X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.224.195 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:148294 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > Providing a proof-of-concept async Elisp-level resolution isn't hard if > you use something like (start-process "dns-resolve" nil "host" > "the.name"), but I think that fixing it at the C code level in > make-network-process makes a lot more sense. If :nowait would result in `make-network-process' returning immediately -- even before doing the DNS resolving -- then that would be ideal, I think. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no * Sent from my Rome