From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Problems with the url package on w32? Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 00:15:25 -0500 Message-ID: References: <871wnnclkz.fsf@freemail.hu> <87lkltztzy.fsf@freemail.hu> <871wniv89d.fsf@freemail.hu> <87wt5825wh.fsf@freemail.hu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1165209340 30909 80.91.229.10 (4 Dec 2006 05:15:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 05:15:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 04 06:15:39 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Gr6B0-0007ic-28 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Dec 2006 06:15:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gr6Az-0006zo-M8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Dec 2006 00:15:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gr6Ao-0006zG-PX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Dec 2006 00:15:26 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gr6Ao-0006z3-27 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Dec 2006 00:15:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gr6An-0006z0-Sf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Dec 2006 00:15:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Gr6An-00050c-PG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Dec 2006 00:15:25 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1Gr6An-0005Z4-0G; Mon, 04 Dec 2006 00:15:25 -0500 Original-To: Magnus Henoch In-reply-to: <87wt5825wh.fsf@freemail.hu> (message from Magnus Henoch on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 19:25:34 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:63258 Archived-At: > > 1. Make non-blocking connections work on Windows. > > 2. Make (featurep 'make-network-process '(:nowait t)) return nil on > > Windows. > > 3. Document that make-network-process returns nil if it fails to > > create a non-blocking socket. > > 4. Make make-network-socket do a blocking connect if a non-blocking > > connect fails, and document that. > > Why not make it signal an error if it can't do what was requested? Hm... that might work. IMO it should be easy for a program to find out what happened (non-blocking connect doesn't work in this case), so it can perform a certain remedy (doing a blocking connect instead). A specific error "nowait-not-supported" could be the solution. Does anyone argue against this?