Re: Asynchronous DNS

[Alain Schneble]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:

> Alain Schneble <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> What happens if background thread(s) are still alive (e.g. blocking,
>> waiting for a network response) and Emacs is killed? Will it wait for
>> the background threads to terminate or will it forcibly kill them?
>
> I'm guessing they'll die along with Emacs.  That's what happens with
> threads started by libraries currently, I think.

If so, depending on how network resources are used, it may not release
them properly.  They /might/ be released while the process is being
stopped.  But will they be released in any case?  After all, it sounds a
bit awkward to rely on such a behavior even if it would just work.
Doesn't it?