Re: Asynchronous DNS

[Stefan Monnier]

>> > 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