Re: master 54b9213: Handle thread-signal towards the main thread (Bug#32502)

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
>> Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2018 15:52:21 -0400
>> Cc: address@hidden
>> 
>> >> Cool, then let's remove --without-threads,
>> > That's a separate issue.  AFAIU, this option exists for people who
>> > don't want threads in Emacs even if they can be supported.
>> 
>> Hmm... would people really be OK with --without-threads causing Gnus to
>> become unusable?
>
> If Gnus indeed is unusable without threads (I didn't know that), that
> could be a bug in Gnus that should be fixed.

FWIW, my idea here (and someone else might get around to implementing
this before I do, so this might be meaningless) was to let each Gnus
server conduct each network access in its a separate thread. So not a
single "Gnus thread", nor even "one thread per server", but creating a
new thread for each server as it accesses the network, letting the
thread then return and die. So once we have a canonical check for thread
support, it wouldn't be hard to accommodate both situations.