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: gnutls infloop possibly fixed Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:41:51 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87hayx8feo.fsf@gnus.org> <87ehu0lqc7.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87fwefj0l9.fsf@gnus.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1329169319 18735 80.91.229.3 (13 Feb 2012 21:41:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:41:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 13 22:41:58 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 1Rx3eo-0002wj-NF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:41:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55462 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rx3en-0003UP-Kb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:41:57 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:43958) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rx3ej-0003U3-Ri for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:41:54 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rx3ei-0004W5-6c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:41:53 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:39290) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rx3ei-0004W1-3Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:41:52 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rx3eh-0000kq-AV; Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:41:51 -0500 In-reply-to: <87fwefj0l9.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:47:14 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 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:148583 Archived-At: > Thanks! I have just one question: can we, instead of aborting on > EAGAIN, retry a few times? My suggestion is below. That would make sense, I guess. I have no idea whether EAGAIN is a common situation to be in when doing writes on a functioning network, though. EAGAIN is defined to mean that a system call was interrupted and the program should try again. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use free telephony http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel/