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

[Ulrich Drepper <drepper cygnus com>]

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'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.

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