On Wed, 2013-01-23 at 02:46 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Mon, 21.01.13 10:25, Daniel P. Berrange (berrange(a)redhat.com) wrote:
>
> > > The glibc maintainers don't seem to be against this idea and I am
> > > willing to put time into design and implementation.
> >
> > Perhaps I'm misunderstanding what you're after, but doesn't
"getaddrinfo_a"
> > already provide an async version of getaddrinfo ?
> >
> > "Asynchronous Hostname Lookup API"
> >
http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/asynchnl.pdf
> >
> > That said I don't see the reverse - getnameinfo_a
>
> Brrrrh. It's designed around process signal delivery. I am
> shuddering.
Ew. Signals are not an event loop API. Signals are not an event loop
API. Signals are not an event loop API. But apparently that's hard for
some people to understand...
I never claimed it was a nice API, just that it provides an async hostname
lookup capability already :-)
Daniel
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