Re: Asynchronous DNS

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2016 13:32:25 +1100
> 
> > But even then, an application that just specifies this and doesn't
> > make any other changes in the code structure might become broken.
> 
> Yes, so applications that request async DNS would presumably know that
> they've done so and program accordingly (i.e., wait until the state
> changes to the appropriate state before talking to the process).

How can an application guess that requesting async DNS gets them much
more than they asked for?