From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Asynchronous DNS Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2016 11:43:43 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87si1gx6wz.fsf@gnus.org> <86y4b5zvzt.fsf@gmail.com> <8760y9kwrk.fsf@gnus.org> <8760y7nag7.fsf@gnus.org> <83oabzzsjq.fsf@gnu.org> <87fuxazkfe.fsf@gnus.org> <83io25yeqk.fsf@gnu.org> <87h9hpnreg.fsf@gnus.org> <83y4b0wi7m.fsf@gnu.org> <87si17evk6.fsf@gnus.org> <83twlnvcz2.fsf@gnu.org> <87vb63obm3.fsf@gnus.org> <87r3gqmg6g.fsf@gnus.org> <83egcqtfnm.fsf@gnu.org> <86mvrdmk8p.fsf@realize.ch> <877fihjo4m.fsf@gnus.org> <86io20n3xn.fsf@realize.ch> <8760y055l1.fsf@gnus.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1454928285 9441 80.91.229.3 (8 Feb 2016 10:44:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 10:44:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Alain Schneble , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 08 11:44:36 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 1aSjJ5-0003Cr-F3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Feb 2016 11:44:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43367 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aSjJ4-00078j-SK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Feb 2016 05:44:34 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58357) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aSjIP-0006iF-Kl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Feb 2016 05:43:57 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aSjIL-0001hW-NN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Feb 2016 05:43:53 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:54469) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aSjIH-0001hD-9g; Mon, 08 Feb 2016 05:43:45 -0500 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at test-mx.suse.de Original-Received: from relay1.suse.de (charybdis-ext.suse.de [195.135.220.254]) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E044ACAD; Mon, 8 Feb 2016 10:43:43 +0000 (UTC) X-Yow: I am having FUN... I wonder if it's NET FUN or GROSS FUN? In-Reply-To: <8760y055l1.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Mon, 08 Feb 2016 12:55:06 +1100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x (no timestamps) [generic] X-Received-From: 195.135.220.15 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:199498 Archived-At: Lars Ingebrigtsen writes: > It would be better if the application code didn't have to care, but that > means that either all those functions will have to block (getting us > back to square one, basically), or they'll have to set up a queue of > pending actions to be taken, which I think is rather too ambitious. There's still the benefit of blocking in the Emacs event loop instead of a system call, with the former Emacs can still run other process filters. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, schwab@suse.de GPG Key fingerprint = 0196 BAD8 1CE9 1970 F4BE 1748 E4D4 88E3 0EEA B9D7 "And now for something completely different."