p0.41 nntp.el hangs

p0.41 nntp.el hangs

[Karl Kleinpaste]

Pterodactyl Gnus v0.41
XEmacs 20.4 "Emerald" [Lucid] (i386-pc-linux) of Sun May 31 1998 on threepwood.idb.hist.no
200 news.jprc.com InterNetNews NNRP server INN 1.7.2 08-Dec-1997 ready (posting ok).

The modifications p0.40->p0.41 of nntp.el seem to induce a general
hang.  I have 2 NNTP servers, yet "netstat -t" confirms that p0.41 is
only connecting to the first (greeting above) with no data left
in-queue.  I've not chased through nntp.el before; if there's some
particular function that should be traced, let me know and I'll give
it a try with edebug.

Putting p0.40's nntp.el into p0.41 makes things work fine.

Re: p0.41 nntp.el hangs

[Simon Josefsson]

Karl Kleinpaste <karl@jprc.com> writes:

> The modifications p0.40->p0.41 of nntp.el seem to induce a general
> hang.

Until p0.41:

--- nntp.el-    Sun Nov  8 01:28:23 1998
+++ nntp.el     Sun Nov  8 01:47:32 1998
@@ -750,7 +750,7 @@
 This function is supposed to be called from `nntp-server-opened-hook'.
 It will make innd servers spawn an nnrpd process to allow actual article
 reading."
-  (nntp-send-command "^\\.*\r?\n" "MODE READER"))
+  (nntp-send-command "^.*\n" "MODE READER"))
 
 (defun nntp-send-authinfo (&optional send-if-force)
   "Send the AUTHINFO to the nntp server.
@@ -858,7 +858,7 @@
     (when (and (buffer-name pbuffer)
               process)
       (process-kill-without-query process)
-      (nntp-wait-for process "^\\.*\n" buffer nil t)
+      (nntp-wait-for process "^.*\n" buffer nil t)
       (if (memq (process-status process) '(open run))
          (prog1
              (caar (push (list process buffer nil) nntp-connection-alist))