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Re: Asynchronous DNS resolving


From: Lars Ingebrigtsen
Subject: Re: Asynchronous DNS resolving
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 15:54:20 +1100
User-agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

> Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
>> Is getaddrinfo_a available on all the platforms we care about?  Or is
>> there a gnulib module for compatibility or something?
>
> There isn't a gnulib module for it.  It should be reasonably easy to
> add one, though, that falls back on getaddrinfo if getaddrinfo_a
> doesn't exist.  Or perhaps we could just borrow the glibc
> implementation, though that'd be more work.

Writing a version that has an async callback when using getaddrinfo
would be rather difficult, I'd guess?

> As far as I know only glibc supports it natively.

Right, so this would not work on Windows and OS X, probably?

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