Re: Freeze up on general news scan (g)

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Tue, 05 Nov 2013 07:03:04 +0100 Vincent Bernat <bernat@luffy.cx> wrote: 

VB>  ❦  5 novembre 2013 03:59 CET, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> :
EA> Thanks for this, at least it's good to know the state of affairs. It
EA> looks an elisp version of that sequence would be very simple: just call
EA> `gnus-server-close-all-servers', and then `gnus'.
>>> 
>>> It would be nice to add that to `gnus' as a user option (maybe a boolean
>>> `gnus-always-reopen-connections').  I worry, however, that adding it
>>> implicitly says we don't plan to solve the problem.
>> 
>> I wish I could be of more use, but network connectivity is foreign
>> territory to me. Where would you propose to add this reopen hook? How
>> would emacs/gnus know that, for instance, the computer had just resumed
>> from hibernation?

VB> I think that the proposition is to do this "unconditionally". So, when
VB> you resume your laptop, you type `M-x gnus` and you get the connections
VB> reopened.

Right.  The better way is to do it conditionally but it seems like a
hard problem.

VB> As to detect lose of connectivity, I think this is quite hard. If
VB> depending on D-Bus is OK, Gnus could listen to Network Manager's state
VB> (`StateChange` or `StateChanged`)

Yup, but NM is hardly universal and too many other things can break the
connection.  Lars had a big thread about it on emacs-devel.  I refresh
rarely so I wouldn't mind always reopening, but it does seem like giving
up on an interesting problem :)

Ted