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bug#28542: Temporary failure in name resolution while quitting emacs
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#28542: Temporary failure in name resolution while quitting emacs |
Date: |
Thu, 03 Dec 2020 09:47:14 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> > The ELisp manual says ab out kill-emacs-hook:
>> >
>> > Because ‘kill-emacs’ can be called in situations where user
>> > interaction is impossible (e.g., when the terminal is
>> > disconnected), functions on this hook should not attempt to
>> > interact with the user. If you want to interact with the user when
>> > Emacs is shutting down, use ‘kill-emacs-query-functions’, described
>> > below.
>> >
>> > So I don't think we can safely ask whether to continue.
>>
>> I don't quite interpret it that way -- this only says that if your
>> intention is to communicate with the user, then use
>> `kill-emacs-query-functions'.
>
> But your suggestion was to ask the user whether to continue -- doesn't
> that qualify as "communicating with the user"?
It does. But the manual talks about intent -- "if you want to interact"
-- but doesn't prohibit Emacs itself from interacting with the user.
Obviously an error doesn't happen by intent.
> Then perhaps waiting for the response for some finite time would cover
> the cases where the user cannot answer the question?
Do you mean in the noninteractive case? I don't propose to change
anything unless interactive.
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- bug#28542: Temporary failure in name resolution while quitting emacs, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/12/02
- bug#28542: Temporary failure in name resolution while quitting emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/12/02
- bug#28542: Temporary failure in name resolution while quitting emacs,
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- bug#28542: Temporary failure in name resolution while quitting emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/12/03
- bug#28542: Temporary failure in name resolution while quitting emacs, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/12/04
- bug#28542: Temporary failure in name resolution while quitting emacs, Robert Pluim, 2020/12/04
- bug#28542: Temporary failure in name resolution while quitting emacs, Glenn Morris, 2020/12/04
- bug#28542: Temporary failure in name resolution while quitting emacs, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/12/06
- bug#28542: Temporary failure in name resolution while quitting emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/12/04
- bug#28542: Temporary failure in name resolution while quitting emacs, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/12/06
- bug#28542: Temporary failure in name resolution while quitting emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/12/06
- bug#28542: Temporary failure in name resolution while quitting emacs, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/12/07
- bug#28542: Temporary failure in name resolution while quitting emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/12/07