From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/14379 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Raeburn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: gnus loops if nntp server connection closes without sending output Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 21:58:55 -0500 (EST) Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <199803020258.VAA16137@kr-pc.cygnus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035153580 14599 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:39:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:39:40 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA30783 for ; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 19:24:44 -0800 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (root@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA05720 for ; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 21:11:22 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAH07006; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 21:09:13 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 01 Mar 1998 21:08:57 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA06991 for ; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 21:08:50 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 2362 invoked by uid 504); 2 Mar 1998 03:08:43 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 2359 invoked from network); 2 Mar 1998 03:08:43 -0000 Original-Received: from tweedledumb.cygnus.com (192.80.44.1) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 2 Mar 1998 03:08:42 -0000 Original-Received: from kr-pc.cygnus.com (kr-pc.cygnus.com [192.80.44.193]) by tweedledumb.cygnus.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA05483 for ; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 22:08:31 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from raeburn@localhost) by kr-pc.cygnus.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) id VAA16137; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 21:58:55 -0500 (EST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14379 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14379 I'm trying to contact an nntp server through a tcp forwarder (ssh). The forwarder accepts the connection, but then if the news server cannot be reached, it closes it. The loop in nntp-wait-for does not appear to handle a closed connection, where no amount of waiting will produce output from the closed pipe. So nntp-open-connection loops endlessly. I tried making nntp-wait-for simply raise an error in this case, but that aborts the gnus invocation, and doesn't permit the reading of groups from other servers. I'm looking at qgnus-0.32, but the announcements for 0.33 and 0.34 don't indicate any change in this area. Ken