From: Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Reviving Gnus after suspend/hibernation
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:07:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pqhpv1g5.fsf@dod.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m262jhdhit.fsf@pluto.luannocracy.com>
>>>>> Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>:
> Whether or not it does may depend on lots of things: backends, agent,
> cache, etc. Lars has said the code is generally not designed to
> handle arbitrary quit's, and I take him at his word.
> Except in purely-functional languages where there is no mutation,
> invariants are regularly broken and fixed up (e.g. if two lists are
> supposed to be the same length, you ultimately have to modify them one
> at a time). If a quit is thrown while invariants are broken, they'll
> stay that way.
Yes, well... eppur si muove... until something breaks in an unrepairable
fashion (so far it hasn't) I will continue to press `C-g' on a stuck
gnus. Probably after the first couple of breaks as well.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-22 9:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-18 16:39 Ludovic Courtès
2011-10-18 17:15 ` Richard Riley
2011-10-18 18:00 ` Tassilo Horn
2011-10-18 19:14 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-10-19 6:20 ` Tassilo Horn
2011-10-21 15:31 ` Ludovic Courtès
2011-10-21 16:59 ` Steinar Bang
2011-10-21 23:58 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-10-22 9:07 ` Steinar Bang [this message]
2011-10-22 20:29 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-10-18 19:13 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-10-24 13:23 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-10-27 17:41 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-10-27 18:30 ` Jonas Hörsch
2011-10-28 16:27 ` Richard Riley
2011-10-29 19:07 ` Antoine Levitt
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