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From: Joseph Gay <ysph@psy.ai>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: nntp hangs
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 12:51:59 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87aa3ug9tc.fsf@geneva.hpsy.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b4m62ejfgmm.fsf@jpl.org>

Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:

>> Like I said there, I thought setting the heartbeat parameter would work
>> but it doesn't seem to.  So maybe it's a Gnus bug?
>
> Or a TCP-keepalive bug?  I tried commenting out that section in
> nntp.el.  So far Gnus doesn't seem to hang up...
> I suspect Emacs may keep thinking the nntp connection is alive,
> i.e. `process-status' returns `open', even if the remote news
> server disconnects it unilaterally.

This does seem plausible as I've just experienced what appears to be the
same bug on an ssh connection through TRAMP. The strace reveals a select
read poll loop where read always returns EAGAIN.




  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-05 18:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-01  8:04 Katsumi Yamaoka
2012-03-01 14:39 ` Tassilo Horn
2012-03-02 17:05   ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-03-05 11:10     ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2012-03-05 18:51       ` Joseph Gay [this message]
2012-03-06  8:09         ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2012-03-10  0:37           ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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