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

[Vandoorselaere Yoann <yoann mandrakesoft com>]

Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com> writes:

> On 6 Jan 2000, Vandoorselaere Yoann wrote:
> 
> > Ummm calling fork() to do a gethostbyname instead of rewwriting
> > gethostbyname to operate asynchronously is dirty and slow...
> 
> It's a lot cleaner than trying to reimplement all of gethostbyname() - you
> can't just implement the DNS protocol and hope to achieve the equivalent
> of gethostbyname() functionality.

Why do not ask to the gnu libc guy if they already 
thought implementing async gethostbyname() ?
 
And if not, if it is a problem to implement it.

> 
> libgnomeui/gnome-dns already implements this type of functionality, with a
> dynamic server pool, and it is there and works.
> 

So it was done in a LGPL program,
no need to talk more about adns.

And is it very usefull for Gnet, which is, as i understand a 
gnome related library, to duplicate the work ?

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