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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Magnus Henoch <magnus.henoch@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Async DNS for OSX
Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 20:34:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878tyyng03.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ed155175-0daf-adf5-7e7b-78ea33642c37@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Wed, 25 May 2016 11:27:40 -0700")

Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:

> Would it make sense to do this as a gnulib module for getaddrinfo_a?
> That way, Emacs could just continue to use the GNU/Linux interface,
> and other programs needing async DNS could do so as well, without too
> much trouble.

It that were possible, it would be much cleaner (and as you say, more
generally useful).

Implementing the full getaddrinfo_a interface would be a bigger job than
just the simple bits that Emacs uses (signal handling, etc), though.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-25 18:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-25  9:45 Async DNS for OSX Magnus Henoch
2016-05-25 18:27 ` Paul Eggert
2016-05-25 18:34   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2016-05-25 23:37     ` Paul Eggert
2016-05-26 10:46       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-05-26 14:41         ` Paul Eggert

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