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bug#43682: 28.0.50; Clean up nnimap server buffers?
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Eric Abrahamsen |
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bug#43682: 28.0.50; Clean up nnimap server buffers? |
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Thu, 01 Oct 2020 10:25:00 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
On 10/01/20 18:01 PM, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> It's possible (I'm not claiming to understand all the code) that all we
>> would need to do is fix `gnus-async-wait-for-article' to replace its
>> calls to `nntp-find-connection' and `nntp-accept-process-output' with
>> something generalized. Those two functions deal with directly with
>> `nntp-connection-alist', so we'd need something that would do the
>> equivalent with `nnimap-connection-alist'.
>
> Yup.
This is something I wouldn't want to tackle until we have generic
functions.
>> Anyway, in the interest of completing this far less ambitious patch: if
>> the nnimap connection has timed out, we should remove this connection
>> from `nnimap-connection-alist', so this version of the patch does that.
>> If async has opened a second connection, I guess we should leave that
>> alone, though I don't have too much confidence that the whole process
>> will recover gracefully from the main connection dying...
>
> Well, the connections are separate, and there's all kinds of reasons for
> the server to close a connection, so...
>
>> + (unless (memq (process-status (get-buffer-process buffer))
>> + '(open run))
>
> Aka `process-live-p'.
I forgot we have that!
> Otherwise looks fine to me (but I haven't tested the code).
Okay, I'll run this for a bit, as well.