On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 09:37:37AM +0800, Nick Jones wrote: > On Wednesday, January 16, 2013 10:11 PM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > >As the Feature was renamed and the content of Feature has been extended > >as requested by FESCo, re-announcing it to the community for re-review. > > > >See https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/986 > > > >= Features/Fix Network Name Resolution = > >https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FixNetworkNameResolution > > > >* Detailed description > >Currently the getaddrinfo() function doesn't work as it was desinged. > >Many of its features are buggy and cannot be used without extensive > >workarounds. Many software packages are using getaddrinfo() with such > >workarounds. Many can trigger its failures. And many packages that don't > >use getaddrinfo() will be ported in the near future. > > > > One feature I would like to see added to future glibc, is a fully > asynchronous version of getaddrinfo, and also getnameinfo. > > Asynchronous for non filesystem fds at least. > > The glibc maintainers don't seem to be against this idea and I am > willing to put time into design and implementation. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding what you're after, but doesn't "getaddrinfo_a" already provide an async version of getaddrinfo ? "Asynchronous Hostname Lookup API" http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/asynchnl.pdf That said I don't see the reverse - getnameinfo_a Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
