Re: Asynchronous DNS

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> We could remove these sanity checks (in this and many other
> process-related APIs), they are not strictly necessary, at least not
> in that function, AFAICS.

We could, and that would give us a better socket interface in the long
term, I think.  That is, no callers would have to care what level of
asynchronous socket we're setting up.  But I think that that's probably
a lot of work.

> But I think a better approach is to make all those APIs that check or
> need a fully-functional process object to wait for DNS completion
> before they proceed.  That would be fully backward-compatible, at the
> price that the callers will need to be changed to actually take
> advantage of this feature.  Which I think is a Good Thing, because for
> any application code that wants the async DNS we need a human to
> seriously consider all the implications and modify the code
> accordingly.  Evidently, this isn't something that can be
> transparently changed under the hood.

Yup.  I'll change make-network-address to only do async DNS when :nowait
is 'dns, I think...

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