Re: Asynchronous DNS

[Andreas Schwab]

Alain Schneble <address@hidden> writes:

> Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> That sounds interesting, but would it really be feasible to call out to
> the event loop while in the blocking call?

That's what accept-process-output does.

Andreas.

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