From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Deniz Dogan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Asynchronously downloading a file Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 11:04:41 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1278061563 24226 80.91.229.12 (2 Jul 2010 09:06:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 09:06:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs To: Qiang Guo Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 02 11:06:00 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1OUcC4-0006ta-1a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:05:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34873 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OUcC3-0006gN-Cn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Jul 2010 05:05:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=58062 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OUcBO-0006gI-7S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Jul 2010 05:05:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OUcBM-0005Wh-VR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Jul 2010 05:05:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-fx0-f41.google.com ([209.85.161.41]:45038) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OUcBM-0005WV-R3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Jul 2010 05:05:12 -0400 Original-Received: by fxm17 with SMTP id 17so2419219fxm.0 for ; Fri, 02 Jul 2010 02:05:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:received:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=3gBhoRnQ4Xk0PYMGpVWokbi79cJqm0+NoKrQbaBnehY=; b=iaDY/ihnhTwBJmD/8dcf35NkiAQmxWz98fVNHto7J9dxzlDE4gcApN4G8zsqj0WSLX E16xLVmnA99HbaallIiZFcFR94ktPY1Dh20silbtchNpxIQS7m+MJsfjnSwY1cXAlaJB LfZ5XYBmMq1KtvbfRPecnu0w3+OjHWigduSIw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=qN59zgic91oTJQZZUuinsJSgujP8VtNhgIi2unKcfi4ZfwNWZeFhWPTJaa7FolgBvr cpEbkm2dvJzIdTUfdpepgYI/JUZgMnXeiitS49XPozT9ED0lIs/Nw1U3K/LxO/glLrA5 srnQw1H33871Ubsiws1/7CiJqxvpua8w6rZ6Y= Original-Received: by 10.239.164.131 with SMTP id t3mr29965hbd.197.1278061511246; Fri, 02 Jul 2010 02:05:11 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.239.135.207 with HTTP; Fri, 2 Jul 2010 02:04:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:74043 Archived-At: 2010/7/2 Qiang Guo : > > Emacs adheres to single thread fervently, so it may be > impossible to do this within emacs. > I was not necessarily looking for threading, but just spawning a process, e.g. wget, which gets the file for me. :) -- Deniz Dogan