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Re: zwgc and server not available
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Aug 9 13:14:10 1995
To: Kevin Radke <radke@cpre1.ee.iastate.edu>
Cc: zephyr@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 09 Aug 1995 12:01:47 CDT."
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Date: Wed, 09 Aug 1995 13:10:43 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> What should happen when one starts zwgc and the server(s) aren't
> reachable? Right now it prints "Connection timed out while
> subscribing" and just hangs.
zwgc will time out eventually in this case, but I agree that it's
highly annoying that it blocks all signals and waits for server
responses before forking.
This problem might be addressed in a future release; I didn't spend
much time on zwgc problems for 2.0.x, since it's a big can of worms.
