Re: Asynchronous DNS

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Elias Mårtenson <address@hidden> writes:

> Are there any technical reasons why the name resolution (or whatever
> it is that needs to be asynchronous) could not be run in a thread in
> the Emacs process itself? As long as the thread is not running any
> Lisp code, it should work, correct?

There's no problem doing non-Lisp things in a separate thread.  But
doing anything that calls Lisp stuff from the non-main thread is, if I
understand things correctly, highly iffy.

Which makes things rather awkward.

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