Re: Asynchronous DNS

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Alain Schneble <address@hidden> writes:

> I think the point here is that with these blocking calls in place, we
> wouldn't really need a separate :nowait 'immediate, just the existing
> :nowait t.  And IIUC, this is also what Eli Zaretskii proposes.  With
> this model, :nowait t really means: I request as much async behavior as
> possible.  But if code is not arranged in an async fashion, then well,
> you might not get full async behavior.  It's your fault, but we won't
> signal an error.

If we can identify all the places where we have to insert these
blockers, then having :nowait t be as async as possible, then that would
be nice.  I kinda feel that might not be realistic.  But I may be
wrong.  I mean, there aren't a hundred process-related built-in
functions...  Your list was just in the tens, right?

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