Re: Async DNS lookups

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:

> I would suggest just keeping all the thread stuff in C.  Don't provide
> any callback.  Instead, have the main thread run the event loop (a la
> sit-for -- I don't know the C functions offhand) and return an answer
> when the worker thread reports back.

This is meant to be used to provide non-blocking domain lookups for
things that are asynchronous.  Having the Lisp code wait for this async
lookup to finish would be, er, not helpful.  :-)

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