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Re: Windows people -- help needed!

From: Chris Russell <cdr_at_encapsule.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 15:47:09 -0500

Daniel, I think there were some questions but no refutation. Sorry I can't
code it for you myself - I'm buried elsewhere right now! And the project
doesn't use curl (yet).

- Chris

----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Stenberg" <daniel_at_haxx.se>
To: "libcurl Mailing list" <curl-library_at_lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 2:30 PM
Subject: Re: Windows people -- help needed!

On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Chris Russell wrote:

> This is a good question. In the scheme I suggested, the worker thread (the
> one that calls gethostbyname()) may indeed block if, as empirically noted
> by the original poster, the network interface is down.

So, did you come to any conclusions regarding the suggested approach? Would
it be a working way to get a timeoutable name resolve call?

--
 Daniel Stenberg -- curl, cURL, Curl, CURL. Groks URLs.
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