On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Jamie Lokier wrote:

>> Just some bad wording on my behalf. c-ares already works fine on Windows
>> too, but we already have the threaded resolver for windows and thus I think
>> we can keep it. I just think that the correct evolution is towards more
>> c-ares, not more threading.
>
> Also, many unix resolvers are not thread-safe, and some which are
> thread-safe just take a process-wide lock.

Right, but I would like to see c-ares used all over. Including all *nix
systems.

There's just these tiny quirks in c-ares left that prevents this from
happening...

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  / daniel.haxx.se