From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Async DNS lookups Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 19:28:46 +0100 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1288722561 4220 80.91.229.12 (2 Nov 2010 18:29:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 18:29:21 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 02 19:29:17 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1PDLbg-0004zP-6u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Nov 2010 19:29:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43935 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PDLbf-00063x-Gc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Nov 2010 14:29:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=35183 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PDLbU-00061E-Ih for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Nov 2010 14:29:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PDLbQ-0001NV-7a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Nov 2010 14:29:04 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:44050) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PDLbP-0001NN-S4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Nov 2010 14:29:00 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PDLbN-0004oZ-F3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Nov 2010 19:28:57 +0100 Original-Received: from cm-84.215.34.171.getinternet.no ([84.215.34.171]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 02 Nov 2010 19:28:57 +0100 Original-Received: from larsi by cm-84.215.34.171.getinternet.no with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 02 Nov 2010 19:28:57 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cm-84.215.34.171.getinternet.no Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAGFBMVEUzfopEISoue4RFbW5M j6Ps7Of+//4teYJGfzHfAAACM0lEQVQ4jX2UT2/aQBDFV4tLrhmclutqiLpXnE3iq0vWybUVbD9B 07M9RNqv3zdrg9IqdAQI7Y/3dv4Z8/tCmMvgNX4QzwC/zL9hrfkIWGuZZxDNIsynBqeW3QSqg3nY b7eGyyGzy7OiP5iQguBUj613WQqo0j6EOrgpny7GKtoC+rSnWlpfLnHGVMZMViktmjq3OQvnqnqn SN83gQKzF3FOHHNmOYOmxs9z1rfGDA4bCvXxjoVF3oP+wE0gqj08WFVyAokhIWpxe1GInOqwm6aG JJ/jBDofqAHwMMne51lhUrfJBEnOXv3yGfTd8Ug1isxjaFp1Gk5N3G4IGWdk97RGM0/z6NMd6xUK wlqE/bntOwC1P+ITRc7A3T51qATAi7YGXZsmKO5hJxzaUgENOhReFsVisI6dVi2Ztn1KhwnofDBo WKDDtFLgTkBPWdNBoZ9S2k1gQU4l6Koq6O0MGrouZqKvkeg60KBgT/dN61wRiEcliDXAK9XxGxk3 XaNeGgVQbNbFCzHKWMBjAYG2zuklvqHVJPmMO9ClGyTsfAj4usqQrKkG+AEvd4WZUwi6dApGelbF fVTjtko73QMFR3pEuvcxblrJLiXrIZnATxSIbg5I6Ba947OVVh6NQW3cpxdd06Jobgp4YXHG9YfS RYBmTV/KXtmrPPAbBNrFPNZj3RSApwhOVcS2uWjzscWz8nUC0csQOwy2ip0vK7qcQQdBNFkfQ/MX eB9WR73835/MhfgDi6ce8Dbaup0AAAAASUVORK5CYII= Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Robert Wyatt, Gilad Atzmon, Ros Stephen's _For the Ghosts Within_: "Where Are They Now?" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:0Y1Xac+QqNQKNzXxm5G/js89NEM= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:132292 Archived-At: Tom Tromey writes: > I would suggest just keeping all the thread stuff in C. Don't provide > any callback. Instead, have the main thread run the event loop (a la > sit-for -- I don't know the C functions offhand) and return an answer > when the worker thread reports back. This is meant to be used to provide non-blocking domain lookups for things that are asynchronous. Having the Lisp code wait for this async lookup to finish would be, er, not helpful. :-) -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen