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From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
Subject: Re: async socket stuff
To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert)
Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 15:25:28 +1000 (EST)
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In-Reply-To: <199705271706.KAA15497@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at May 27, 97 10:06:49 am
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In some mail from Terry Lambert, sie said:
[...]
> Such a call gate would be applicable to all system calls, including
> sockets (I assume you want async completion on socket calls to interleave
> DNS operations 8-)).

Been there, done that with DNS.  Look in the contrib stuff for BIND.
Developed it when similar code was added to the IRC server (ircd) although
that is a much more complex implementation with its own cache, etc.

Darren