On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 11:24:25AM -0600, Dan Williams wrote: > On Wed, 2013-01-23 at 02:46 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > On Mon, 21.01.13 10:25, Daniel P. Berrange (berrange@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > > > > > 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 > > > > Brrrrh. It's designed around process signal delivery. I am > > shuddering. > > Ew. Signals are not an event loop API. Signals are not an event loop > API. Signals are not an event loop API. But apparently that's hard for > some people to understand... I never claimed it was a nice API, just that it provides an async hostname lookup capability already :-) 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
