Re: [e-users] weird when using enlightenment_remote ...

[Michael J. <e-...@ka...>]

On Friday, 26 August 2005, at 11:19:54 (+0900),
Carsten Haitzler wrote:

> It's trying to be friendly and read everything for you! :) seriously
> - e has its own dns lookup code because gethostbyname is a blocking
> call. this is actually only used if making remote connections, but
> it has to parse /etc/resolve.conf to know what to do. this means
> ecore_con is then capable of doing nslookups asynchronously - not
> holding the process hostage to waiting for a dns lookup timeout or
> reply. it always parses this data wehn starting up the connections
> subsystem (ecore_con) but it doesnt mean its making remote
> connections.

This is a horrific hack.  It doesn't even take into account nsswitch
settings.

There are numerous ASYNC DNS packages out there to be used.  Why not
use one?

Michael

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