From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 12 11:11:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from internal.mail.demon.net (internal.mail.demon.net [193.195.224.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0E5E37B5AE for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 11:06:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fanf@demon.net) Received: from fanf.eng.demon.net (fanf.eng.demon.net [195.11.55.89]) by internal.mail.demon.net with ESMTP id TAA11108; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 19:06:02 +0100 (BST) Received: from fanf by fanf.eng.demon.net with local (Exim 3.12 #3) id 12fRWQ-000GVz-00; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 19:05:50 +0100 To: adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org From: Tony Finch Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multithread safe gethostbyname() ? In-Reply-To: <200004120538.WAA17491@sharmas.dhs.org> References: Message-Id: Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 19:05:50 +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Arun Sharma 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