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Re: Pretest?


From: Kim F. Storm
Subject: Re: Pretest?
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:05:10 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.95 (gnu/linux)

YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <address@hidden> writes:

>> I am not familiar with getaddrinfo.  Why do users want to be able to
>> interrupt it?  Is that because it communicates with a DNS server?
>
> I'm not certain about that, but I guess the assignments to
> immediate_quit were copied from those around gethostbyname when the
> getaddrinfo support was added.

At least gethostbyname can potentially block for 3 minutes (waiting
for DNS responses) - so I assumed getaddrinfo could do the same.

-- 
Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk





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