Re: improving network utility calls in lisp/net/net-utils.el

[Stefan Monnier]

> Caveats: Because the call is now synchronous "netstat" will hold up
> Emacs until it competes. Also, font-locking could be better. If this
> patch is accepted I'll work on that as well.

[ Please make (unified) context diffs rather than plain diffs.  I.e. pass
  the "-u" arg to `cvs diff'. ]

I think using async processes is preferable, and was done specifically
to avoid holding up Emacs until the process completes.


        Stefan