resume capabilities

[Kragen Sitaker]

Shap writes:
> The reciprocal situation -- that the client can be starved by competition
> for the server -- is not as compelling.  In deciding to call the server,
> the client has already decided to trust the server.  If the server is
> multiplexed the client has elected to trust the multiplexing decisions.
> This is a completely separate matter from trusting other clients of the
> same server.

As far as I can tell, there are two ways to initiate bidirectional
communication with another process:
- call it and wait for it to return;
- send to it, then return to somebody, and wait for it to call or send to you.

Does this mean I must trust every process I communicate bidirectionally
with not to let me hang forever?  Or is it expected that I will use
trusted intermediaries, or spawn off another process to call me or send
to me after a while in case I'm hung?

Maybe it's premature to be worrying about stuff like this when the OS
doesn't run Emacs yet.

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