On Mon, 21.01.13 10:25, Daniel P. Berrange (berrange(a)redhat.com) wrote:
> The glibc maintainers don't seem to be against this idea and
I am
> willing to put time into design and implementation.
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding what you're after, but doesn't
"getaddrinfo_a"
already provide an async version of getaddrinfo ?
"Asynchronous Hostname Lookup API"
http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/asynchnl.pdf
That said I don't see the reverse - getnameinfo_a
Brrrrh. It's designed around process signal delivery. I am
shuddering.
Lennart
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