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

[Mike Palczewski <mpalczew u washington edu>]

> Ummm calling fork() to do a gethostbyname instead of rewwriting
> gethostbyname to operate asynchronously is dirty and slow...
>
> And it is still worse if this is in a library and that this library
> is used in some *big* program...
>
> Do you remember that fork() does a copy of the *entire* calling process ?
> How can you think of doing such a thing that way ????

how about vfork.  This won't copy the entire process.  On linux vfork

and fork are one and the same but I'm sure on other platforms they are

not.  This way you aren't copying the entire process.

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