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In article <1992Nov4.153902.24082@edf.fr>, rit@chp28aa (Jean-Francois Rit) writes:
>We recently upgraded emacs to 18.58 and since then gnews appears to be broken.
>The connection to the nntp newshost dies instantly and gnews exits with the
>message "connection died out etc.".
>
>Did this happen to anybody and is there a fix for this?  It is quite hard to
>investigate this since gnews exits cleanly and no trace of the NNTP session
>can be found.

I had this problem with 18.57, but it was fixed in 18.58.  At least, I thought
it was.

There was a re-write of the TCP code in 18.57 that was the cause of the break;
maybe the fixed code got backed out later?

I'll check the current sources and see if they differ from mine.
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In article <1992Nov7.014555.14017@leland.Stanford.EDU>, alderson@elaine46 (Rich Alderson) writes:
>>The connection to the nntp newshost dies instantly and gnews exits with the
>>message "connection died out etc.".

>There was a re-write of the TCP code in 18.57 that was the cause of the break;
>maybe the fixed code got backed out later?

The Gnews function nntp-run-p (inside NNTP.el) invokes process-status.
According to p-s's documentation, p-s is supposed to return 'open for
network connections.  Instead, it's actually returning 'run, like a
normal process.  So Gnews thinks no NNTP connection occurs, and the
connection is terminated.

The fix is easy.  You can change the one symbol, or you can use the
following which checks for both.  I suppose this latter will have to
become the official version anyway.

(defun nntp-run-p ()
  "Return t if the NNTP process is running, nil otherwise."
  (and (boundp 'nntp)
       (processp nntp)
       (or (eq (process-status nntp) 'run)
	   (eq (process-status nntp) 'open))))
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