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bug#28542: Temporary failure in name resolution while quitting emacs
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#28542: Temporary failure in name resolution while quitting emacs |
Date: |
Thu, 03 Dec 2020 17:16:43 +0200 |
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: bshanks3@hotmail.com, 28542@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2020 09:47:14 +0100
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> >> > The ELisp manual says ab out kill-emacs-hook:
> >> >
> >> > Because ‘kill-emacs’ can be called in situations where user
> >> > interaction is impossible (e.g., when the terminal is
> >> > disconnected), functions on this hook should not attempt to
> >> > interact with the user. If you want to interact with the user when
> >> > Emacs is shutting down, use ‘kill-emacs-query-functions’, described
> >> > below.
> >> >
> >> > So I don't think we can safely ask whether to continue.
> >>
> >> I don't quite interpret it that way -- this only says that if your
> >> intention is to communicate with the user, then use
> >> `kill-emacs-query-functions'.
> >
> > But your suggestion was to ask the user whether to continue -- doesn't
> > that qualify as "communicating with the user"?
>
> It does. But the manual talks about intent -- "if you want to interact"
> -- but doesn't prohibit Emacs itself from interacting with the user.
> Obviously an error doesn't happen by intent.
I think the manual talks about situations where the communications are
impossible. What do we do in that case?
> > Then perhaps waiting for the response for some finite time would cover
> > the cases where the user cannot answer the question?
>
> Do you mean in the noninteractive case? I don't propose to change
> anything unless interactive.
No, I was talking about the interactive case. Are you assuming that
in the interactive case it is always possible to ask a question and
get a response from the user?
- bug#28542: Temporary failure in name resolution while quitting emacs, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/12/02
- bug#28542: Temporary failure in name resolution while quitting emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/12/02
- bug#28542: Temporary failure in name resolution while quitting emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/12/04
- bug#28542: Temporary failure in name resolution while quitting emacs, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/12/06
- bug#28542: Temporary failure in name resolution while quitting emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/12/06
- bug#28542: Temporary failure in name resolution while quitting emacs, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/12/07
- bug#28542: Temporary failure in name resolution while quitting emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/12/07
- bug#28542: Temporary failure in name resolution while quitting emacs, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/12/07