Subject: Re: bug#28542: Temporary failure in name resolution while quitting emacs

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2020 13:42:06 +0200

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2020 10:34:49 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > No, I was talking about the interactive case.  Are you assuming that
> > in the interactive case it is always possible to ask a question and
> > get a response from the user?
> 
> Isn't that usually the case?

Usually, yes.  But what about the "unusual" cases?  If they exist,
waiting for an answer there will leave Emacs hung.  I proposed to use
a timeout for those cases.