On Fri, 18.01.13 22:49, Andreas Tunek (andreas.tunek@xxxxxxxxx) wrote: > I think you have a good point, but adding every imaginable featw into glibc > is not really a good solution. Maybe glib is a better place for these kinds > of functions? Because doing this externally is really hard. I wrote a library for that named "libasyncns", and glib's async resolver is based on that. libasyncns is different from other libraries for resolving host names in that i actually uses the NSS, rather than just implementing DNS on its own. This has the benefit actually all kinds of hostnames are supported, including those served from LDAP, NIS, mDNS and whatever the user prefers. Now, since NSS and the libc APIs around it are inherentlich synchronous the only way to make them asynchronous without touching glibc is by running them in a separate thread/process. And doing that behind the back of the user is kinda problematic from libraries. So, bypassing NSS is not really an option to fix this properly. And if you want asynchronous name resolution without involvement of threads and suchlike then your only option is to make NSS asynchronous in itself, and you cannot do that without reworking glibc substantially. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
