On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 09:43:40AM +0100, Daniel Stenberg wrote: > >I'm a little iffy on this one. If I understand correctly, depending > >on the build and configuration, curl may not be able to timeout > >during DNS lookups. But I'm not sure if it does, anyway, since we > >don't set any timeouts. > > Right, without a timeout set libcurl won't try to timeout name resolves. > > To clarify: when libcurl is built to use the standard synchronous > name resolver functions it can only abort them after a specified time > by using signals (on posix systems). OK, that matches with my understanding. I think this patch is a fine thing to do for us, then. If we ever do start caring about timing out on name lookups, we can rework it. Thanks. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html