Re: Reviving Gnus after suspend/hibernation

[Stefan Monnier]

> You're right, but on suspend&resume we should not have to wait for the
> TCP connection to time out.  Let's assume it's closed in that specific
> case and set the keepalive for general use.

It strikes me as a non-Emacs-specific problem, so maybe the OS should
kill its TCP connection between suspend and resume.

> Is this just a GnuTLS problem?  Does any of the rest of Emacs have
> issues with hung connections?

I've been suffering from it for many years.  I'm not sure if it
affects NNTP connections (it probably does) but it for sure affects
nnimap with gnutls-cli.

SM> - we should figure out what other applications (e.g. other MUAs) do.
> I think just reopening the connection is reasonable, no?  What else
> needs to be figured out?

As I said, I can't think of any reason why we should be the only ones to
face this problem, so it'd be good to know how others dealt with it.


        Stefan