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23.1; ERC causes Emacs to hang on network dropouts

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Message #40 received at 5650 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
Cc: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida <at> ceid.upatras.gr>,
 ERC Discussion <erc-discuss <at> gnu.org>, 5650 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Vivek Dasmohapatra <vivek <at> etla.org>,
 Thomas Riccardi <riccardi.thomas <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#5650: 23.1; ERC causes Emacs to hang on network dropouts
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 23:16:56 +0100

Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com> writes:

>> > When my network connection drops out, ERC loses its connection and
>> > attempts to reconnect. I see the message "connecting to server
>> > irc.freenode.net 6777..." in the minibuffer and Emacs becomes
>> > unresponsive.
>> ...
>> I made a patch that increments erc-server-reconnect-count before calling
>> erc-server-reconnect instead, and resets it only when the connection is
>> really ready, that is, in erc-connection-established.
>
> Hi,
>
> Could someone please review this patch by Thomas Riccardi and Vivek
> Dasmohapatra?  The full description of the problem can be viewed at

The patches looked OK to me.  I've applied them to the Emacs trunk
now -- I think we can consider this "new functionality" and not a bug
fix.  It seems to work for me, but I guess time will tell..

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