On Thu, Jan 01 2009, Reiner Steib wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 29 2008, NAKAJI Hiroyuki wrote:
[...]
>> The "while" in idna-to-ascii-response() seems infinite loop.
>>
>> (defun idna-to-ascii-response ()
>>   (while (and (eq (process-status idna-to-ascii-process) 'run)
>>               (null idna-to-ascii-response))
>>     (accept-process-output idna-to-ascii-process 1))
>>   idna-to-ascii-response)
>>
>> The idna-to-ascii-response is called from message.el and the failure
>> itself occurs in
>>
>> (idna-to-ascii "räksmörgås")
>
> I can't reproduce thin on GNU/Linux.  AFAICS, there's nothing wrong in
> Gnus.  I guess you can reproduce the problem without Gnus:
>
>   emacs -Q -l /path/to/idna.el
>
>   In *scratch*, eval:
>
>   (idna-to-ascii "räksmörgås")
>
> If idna-to-ascii-response inf-loops, it's a bug in idna.el, the idn
> program or Emacs' process handling on FreeBSD.
> CC-ing Simon Josefsson, the author of idna.el and libidn.

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