Re: 21.4 hangs in the absence of a net connection

Karl Kleinpaste writes: I agreed at the time and still do. OK ... Would a run-time command-line option be satisfactory? With a configure option to determine whether getaddrinfo is IPv6-ly correct or not by default? N.B. I'm not willing to go in the direction of Do The Right Thing for the 21.4 series because that would involve second- guessing the user and the standard AFAICT. And I think it has to be a command-line option because this lookup gets done before X resources or .emacs gets parsed. I don't know when this will get implemented, though. I personally do not have time for the near future (2-4 weeks), given a simple workaround (set DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0). I would be interested in a specification of Do The Right Thing for 21.5 (probably to be released in September). I don't know who would implement it (I'm probably not competent, see below), so I can't promise it would be in by then. But I'd try; I've been bitten by this one too. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Further info and philosophical BS you may or may not want to know about: I don't know about this stuff, so I accepted the judgement of the people who approved or implemented the patches in the first place (I was not even on XEmacs Review at the time) when I wrote the PROBLEMS entry. Michael> First citing 'Those Who Know' without references gets my Michael> hackles up. Sorry about that. I'll try to avoid obscure sarcasm in the future. (I'm new at being a "public face of XEmacs.") Anyway, that's exactly what I got when I bitched about it at the time. Try Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org&gt; as the person most likely to have approved the patch. Citing, IIRC, core members of the IPv6 group at the WIDE project. See the thread rooted at http://www.xemacs.org/list-archives/xemacs-beta/200007/msg00348.html specifically http://www.xemacs.org/list-archives/xemacs-beta/200007/msg00374.html Searching "IPv6" at http://www.xemacs.org/list-archives/xemacs-beta/ will get you a couple more threads. Now you have all the references I do. I don't recall any RFCs being mentioned, but maybe I've just forgotten. Michael> In these days of instant access, it would be simple for Michael> you to look up I am not an expert on network stuff, nor the standards, and was not involved in the implementation of IPv6 in XEmacs. It would be simple, yes, but time-consuming for me personally---I don't know exactly where to look, and would have to confirm that the reference I gave actually said what I have cited others as saying. -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules."