Re: [Gaim-devel] Resolving IP addresses in Gaim

[Gary K. <gr...@re...>]

Mark Doliner wrote:
> People on gaim-commits may already be familiar with this...
> 
> Previously there were three different methods used to resolve IP addresses in
> Gaim.  We chose a different method at compile time based on your OS.  They all
> used either getaddrinfo() or gethostbyname().  The differences lie in how they
> achieved non-blockingness.
> 
> In Unix-land we forked a process to do the lookup, then waited for the process
> to send us the results.  In Windows-land we spawned a thread and did the
> lookup there.  In anything else we used a very bland implementation which
> blocked the UI.
> 
> It seemed dumb to me to have three implementations of the same thing, so I got
> rid of the Unix one and the other one and now we're using only the
> thread-based lookup.
> 
> Ethan didn't like this (I think because it uses threads?), but his reasons
> didn't really convince me.  How do other people feel?  It's pretty easy to
> revert my change and go back to having lots of crazy and confusing code, if
> people want.
> 
> -Mark

Why do we need a thread?  Can't we use a watcher or listener in our main
loop?

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Gary Kramlich <gr...@re...>