Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 19:05:50 +0100 From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> To: adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multithread safe gethostbyname() ? Message-ID: <E12fRWQ-000GVz-00@fanf.eng.demon.net> In-Reply-To: <200004120538.WAA17491@sharmas.dhs.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10004111813310.81762-100000@pious.yahoo.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10004111813310.81762-100000@pious.yahoo.com>
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Arun Sharma <adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org> wrote: > >I think it'd be very useful to have a non-blocking DNS lookup API (one >which exposes the underlying file descriptor) . Winsock has this. UNIX >netscape 4.x would freeze half as often if this was done right. http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ian/adns/ is nice if you don't mind the GPL. Tony. -- f.a.n.finch fanf@demon.net dot@dotat.at 441 the tone-arm of turbidity To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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