Re: Blocking call to accept-process-output with quit inhibited!! [11 times]

[Stefan Monnier]

> [ emacs hanging ]
Stefan> (IIRC, one such is during hostname lookup, but I don't know of
Stefan> any such case once the TCP connection is established).
> I've been bitten by this a number of times.
> It seems to me that Emacs could either resolve names in a separate
> thread (so the originating thread could handle other I/O and be
> interruptable) or do the work in a subprocess.

I'd tend to agree.  Patches welcome.  Maybe the concurrency extension
will resolve this problem eventually.


        Stefan