On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Archie Cobbs wrote:
> Christopher Sedore writes:
>
> A new, faster event notification system would be great. But don't forget
> to include *all* events, not just file descriptor readability/writability.
> I.e., signal delivery, child exit notification, maybe even support for
> an arbitrary number of (independent) timers. And make the events independent
> from each other -- to avoid problems like when an application completely
> hangs for 90 seconds when it calls gethostbyname().
An async thread to do hostname lookups would be great! Wouldn't be too
hard in libc_r, would it? But in regular apps, setitimer and sigsetjmp()
would be a solution.
> -Archie
>
> ___________________________________________________________________________
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