From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/80390 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Reviving Gnus after suspend/hibernation Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:07:54 +0200 Organization: Probably a good idea Message-ID: <87pqhpv1g5.fsf@dod.no> References: <87wrc2qmog.fsf@gnu.org> <2iobxedxw9.fsf@news.eternal-september.org> <87lisitc2n.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> <87ty72fjk7.fsf@gnu.org> <8762jiz3fh.fsf@dod.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1319274565 30374 80.91.229.12 (22 Oct 2011 09:09:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 09:09:25 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M28678@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Oct 22 11:09:18 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RHXZt-0001hb-IF for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:09:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1RHXYr-0005Pj-J5; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 04:08:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1RHXYq-0005PX-1x for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 04:08:12 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1RHXYo-000476-9I for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 04:08:11 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RHXYk-0000u5-Lk for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:08:06 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RHXYk-0001OJ-Dw for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:08:06 +0200 Original-Received: from cm-84.208.231.161.getinternet.no ([84.208.231.161]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:08:06 +0200 Original-Received: from sb by cm-84.208.231.161.getinternet.no with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:08:06 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cm-84.208.231.161.getinternet.no Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:OyhG+YIf1W1MCgVTfyihZZ0infU= X-Spam-Score: -5.4 (-----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:80390 Archived-At: >>>>> Dave Abrahams : > 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.