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> > This would be good to have in the system. Have you compared your lib
> > with Paul Vixie's eventlib, part of BIND 8.1.x? The man page is in
> > src/lib/isc/eventlib.mdoc in the 8.1.2 source. A small part is
> > included below.
>   ...
> Looks like the same idea but much more complete (and probably faster,
> better tested, etc..) I'd love to break this out into it's own library
> in src/lib. I think lots of people would find it useful. What kind of
> backlash could I expect? :-)

I suggest looking at the copyright notice and see if it is agreeable,
and probably sending a notice to Paul Vixie/ISC about your intentions.
They're pretty reasonable people.

We used eventlib in a reasonably large project a year and a half ago.
Worked rather well for us.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no

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