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Re: Asynchronous DNS


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: Asynchronous DNS
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2016 11:43:43 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux)

Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> 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.

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