Re: Asynchronous DNS

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:

> Alain Schneble <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> True, but my assumption was that it would be illegal to call
>> `accept-process-output' say, for example, from within
>> `set-process-coding-system' for the sake of waiting for the DNS resolve
>> to complete as it might have unwanted side effects.
>
> You have to wait for the completion event in some way.

Yeah, these blockers would basically have to be a version of this thing
from `send_process':

 while (! new_function_that_says_the_process_is_ready (proc)) 
  wait_reading_process_output (0, 20 * 1000 * 1000, 0, 0, Qnil, NULL, 0);

I think.  Which is what send_process does on EWOULDBLOCK.

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