Re: Reviving Gnus after suspend/hibernation

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:33:23 -0400 Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote: 

>> You're right, but on suspend&resume we should not have to wait for the
>> TCP connection to time out.  Let's assume it's closed in that specific
>> case and set the keepalive for general use.

SM> It strikes me as a non-Emacs-specific problem, so maybe the OS should
SM> kill its TCP connection between suspend and resume.

It probably does.

>> Is this just a GnuTLS problem?  Does any of the rest of Emacs have
>> issues with hung connections?

SM> I've been suffering from it for many years.  I'm not sure if it
SM> affects NNTP connections (it probably does) but it for sure affects
SM> nnimap with gnutls-cli.

That's a completely different use case, you're wrapping a process with
arbitrary output when you use gnutls-cli.  I'd prefer to work just on
hung TCP connections.

Ted