OK, that's kind of what I guessed. Thanks - Jason
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Curt, WE7U <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 7 May 2010, Jason Godfrey wrote: > >> Currently xastir does a fork when it does a DNS lookup. I'm wondering >> if the developers still consider that useful. My guess is yes, but I >> thought I would ask. > > The reason that was done was to provide a timeout for if/when the > lookup does not succeed. If you come up with a different way to > provide that functionality w/o forking, by all means do so. > > -- > Curt, WE7U. <http://www.eskimo.com/~archer> > APRS: Where it's at! <http://www.xastir.org> > Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown > Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. > The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" > _______________________________________________ > Xastir-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir-dev > -- I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution. -- Wernher von Braun _______________________________________________ Xastir-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir-dev
