From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Asynchronous DNS Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2016 12:11:37 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87si1gx6wz.fsf@gnus.org> <86y4b5zvzt.fsf@gmail.com> <8760y9kwrk.fsf@gnus.org> <87wpqpjgwy.fsf@gnus.org> <83a8nk1cxk.fsf@gnu.org> <87h9hrnc8x.fsf@gnus.org> <83powfzsqt.fsf@gnu.org> <87y4b393hl.fsf@gnus.org> <83bn7zyt9o.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1454433124 28425 80.91.229.3 (2 Feb 2016 17:12:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 17:12:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 02 18:11:55 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aQeUZ-0007hz-77 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Feb 2016 18:11:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58340 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aQeUY-0007oa-Jt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Feb 2016 12:11:50 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41919) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aQeUV-0007m7-4u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Feb 2016 12:11:47 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aQeUQ-0002Zb-5F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Feb 2016 12:11:47 -0500 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:53393) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aQeUQ-0002ZV-0e; Tue, 02 Feb 2016 12:11:42 -0500 Original-Received: from ceviche.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by pruche.DIT.UMontreal.CA (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id u12HBaUK027501; Tue, 2 Feb 2016 12:11:37 -0500 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id BDBD6661C6; Tue, 2 Feb 2016 12:11:37 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <83bn7zyt9o.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 02 Feb 2016 18:24:51 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV5569=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9418 : core <5569> : inlines <4259> : streams <1581114> : uri <2131626> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.22 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:199176 Archived-At: >> > and we don't seem to care... >> Actually, we do, but AFAIK we don't need to know about each and every >> thread, we just need to know that threading is used (IIRC, the issues we >> need to handle have to do with signal delivery, making sure we run them >> in the main Emacs/Elisp thread). > We need to know what Emacs code can be run in a separate thread, > because such code and changes in it should be audited specially. Indeed, the code run in a separate thread needs to be written with care, but what I meant is that the rest of Emacs doesn't need to care (any more, since we already took care of it for Gtk and friends). Stefan