Re: Sort-of Announce: Gnet, a network library

[Ian McKellar <yakk-gnome-list yakk net au>]

On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 07:46:24AM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> David Helder <dhelder@umich.edu> writes:
> 
> > Yes, async DNS is a weakness in Gnet.  I've glanced at adns.  The license
> > is a problem.  If I were to implement it (and I probably will), I'd
> > probably just fork and call gethostbyname.  This probably costs a bit more
> > than implementing gethostbyname from scratch as adns does, but, hey, at
> > least I don't have to implement gethostbyname from scratch.

I don't imagine gethostbyname is that hard...
> 
> I'd suggest to do this.  It's not worth spending much time on this
> since most platforms will sometime soon have native async DNS whichyou
> then can use.

OTOH, it would be nice to have an implementation that only needs sockets, and
have autoconf detect if theres a better way :-)

Ian

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