Chasing down a network problem

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Sometimes, while talking to imap.gmail.com, the connection hangs
forever.  `C-g'-ing and popping to the buffer reveals that the process
is invariably dead when this happens.

The loop is basically:

          (while (memq (process-status process) '(open run))
            ...
            (accept-process-output process 1))

The connection is a TLS one.

Is it at all possible that a loop like this won't allow Emacs to update
the status of the connection?  So that `process-status' doesn't get the
right response until we hit the idle loop?

It sounds kinda totally unlikely, but I thought I'd ask.

I've added a lot more debugging code now, but it's very difficult to
reproduce the bug.

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