On Sun, 5 Aug 2012, Arunprasad Rajkumar wrote:
I can understand the technical difficulties behind this scene & but why don't we create a UDP socket(socketpair or pipe may good) temporarily until connection begins? This socket can be signaled from the resolver thread once it finishes its job. User can get this socket via curl_multi_fdset & wait until resolver finished. I hope it will avoid the burden of handling two different cases while doing transfers with curl(1. Until name resolving & after connection).
There's no technical reason why not. There's a slight problem to use a pipe on Windows since it would have to be a real socket for it to work with select(), but it could A) be made differently on different platform or B) use a UDP socket as you mentioned.
There's just the fact that nobody has yet attempted to make an implementation that does this.
But using ares should avoid this right?
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