From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/14452 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: gnus loops if nntp server connection closes without sending output Date: 07 Mar 1998 13:51:11 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <199803020258.VAA16137@kr-pc.cygnus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035153641 16208 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:40:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:40:41 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA10491 for ; Sat, 7 Mar 1998 05:06:27 -0800 Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA04732 for ; Sat, 7 Mar 1998 07:01:43 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAN18768; Sat, 7 Mar 1998 07:37:04 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 07 Mar 1998 06:59:19 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA19891 for ; Sat, 7 Mar 1998 06:58:45 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 6053 invoked by uid 504); 7 Mar 1998 12:58:36 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 6039 invoked from network); 7 Mar 1998 12:58:34 -0000 Original-Received: from xyplex15.uio.no (HELO sparky.gnus.org) (129.240.154.35) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 7 Mar 1998 12:58:33 -0000 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by sparky.gnus.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA04192; Sat, 7 Mar 1998 14:04:44 +0100 Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Throwing Muses's _The Fat Skier_ Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Ken Raeburn's message of "Sun, 1 Mar 1998 21:58:55 -0500 (EST)" X-Mailer: Quassia Gnus v0.35/Emacs 19.34 X-Face: &w!^oO~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\ writes: > I'm trying to contact an nntp server through a tcp forwarder (ssh). > The forwarder accepts the connection, but then if the news server > cannot be reached, it closes it. > > The loop in nntp-wait-for does not appear to handle a closed > connection, where no amount of waiting will produce output from the > closed pipe. Hm. It should check the status of the process and see whether it is still alive. Fix in Quassia Gnus v0.35. At least I think so. Could you check after it's been released? -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen