bug#40676: 28.0.50; gnus locks when reading email

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Mon, 20 Jul 2020 11:23:02 +0200, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> 
>>>>> said:

    Lars> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
    >> For instance, to make it very much like a normal network process, Emacs
    >> could even just output the DNS data as bytes in the process buffer.  (We
    >> have code to parse DNS protocol data in dns.el already.)

    Lars> Actually, that'd make no sense, because we don't have access to the 
raw
    Lars> DNS packages on the C side.

    Lars> So the process could just output the result as ASCII, perhaps.  That 
is,
    Lars> a call to

    Lars> (make-network-process :lookup-address "gnu.org")

    Lars> would result in

    Lars> 209.51.188.148^@2001:470:142:3::a^@

    Lars> or something in the buffer.  Or perhaps

    Lars> ipv4-address^@209.51.188.148^@ipv6-address^@2001:470:142:3::a^@

    Lars> or however we want to do this.

You donʼt like `network-lookup-address-info'? Just asynchifying that
should be enough.

Robert