> The problem is probably that mere "attention"
> doesn't bring us forward in this
> matter. Only code and ideas on how to do the code
> do.

Agree.

> The best way to do progress on this would be to make
> libdenise move forward,
> IMHO.

Yes. I can contribute as a tester but someone skilled
enough has to lead the project.
 
> IIRC, the async stuff in the glibc name lookups are:
> 1) badly documented and

Not true.
http://people.redhat.com/drepper/asynchnl.pdf

> 2) based on signals. The signal dependency
> effectively kills the ability to
> use this with threads. Not to mention that glibc
> isn't very portable outside
> Linux boxes.

A new effort in this area:
http://asyncresolv.sourceforge.net/

(unfortunately it's LGPL and there is no relation to
Curl)

Thanks

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Received on 2003-07-16