Re: Asynchronous DNS

[Alain Schneble]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden>
>>> Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2016 03:36:13 +0100
>>> 
>>> Basically all it does is start a new thread that does getaddrinfo, and
>>> then stashes the response somewhere.
>>
>> "Start a new thread"?  Do you mean with pthreads or somesuch?  IOW, do
>> we now have in Emacs application code that starts new threads?
>
> I don't know, but does that matter?

What happens if background thread(s) are still alive (e.g. blocking,
waiting for a network response) and Emacs is killed? Will it wait for
the background threads to terminate or will it forcibly kill them?