Re: gnus makes emacs lose response

[Stefan Monnier]

>>> Lisp Backtrace:
>>> "accept-process-output"
>>> "imap-wait-for-tag"
>>> "nnimap-retrieve-groups"
>>> "gnus-retrieve-groups"
>> 
>> Is there anything else I can do to help debugging this?
[...]
> After some messing around I found the difference between between both
> cases.  Under Windows the process (e.g. openssl s_client) dies as soon
> as the modem connection is closed while on GNU/Linux it is kept alive.
[...]
> I am not sure what the right course of action on GNU/Linux would be to
> remedy the problem.  Should programs like openssl die when the
> internet connection is being closed?  Or renegotiate a connection?

Note that even if openssl doesn't die and hangs, it shouldn't cause Emacs
to freeze.  I.e. it is important to make sure that C-g works.


        Stefan