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From: Vincent Bernat <bernat@luffy.cx>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: gnus-gravatar may hang offline
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 09:17:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a97xq557.fsf@zoro.exoscale.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87egx9q5f4.fsf@zoro.exoscale.ch> (Vincent Bernat's message of "Fri, 25 Jul 2014 09:11:11 +0200")

 ❦ 25 juillet 2014 09:11 +0200, Vincent Bernat <bernat@luffy.cx> :

> While offline, I notice that Gnus sometimes hang when reading
> articles. I have pinpointed this problem to gravatar support. It uses
> `url-retrieve` which is documented as asynchronous but the resolving
> part isn't.
>
> I suppose there isn't much to do in a simple library like gravatar.el
> since the problem is rooted in Emacs. Does someone know if there is some
> workaround or if the problem is fixed in more recent versions of Emacs
> (I am using Emacs 24.3).

Meantime, I have found this thread:
 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2010-10/msg01053.html

However, it doesn't contain no conclusion.
-- 
Make your program read from top to bottom.
            - The Elements of Programming Style (Kernighan & Plauger)



  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-25  7:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-25  7:11 Vincent Bernat
2014-07-25  7:17 ` Vincent Bernat [this message]
2014-09-24 20:49   ` Ted Zlatanov

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