Subject: Re: bug#5723: 23.1.94; make-network-process and emacs hangs

From: Helmut Eller <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:43:45 +0100

* YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu [2010-03-18 02:57+0100] writes:

> If your case blocks at `connect', then
> it can't be quit with C-g regardless of SYNC_INPUT on those
> ports/systems, because atimer is turned off during the `connect' call.

Why is the timer turned off around connect?  Handling SIGALARM during
connect doesn't seem much different from handling SIGIO.

Helmut