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Re: straight-C DNS lookup with timeout?

Well, that would rock, except that currently I'm using NSThreads, which cannot be killed (unless someone has figured out how to do so, since the last time we all discussed this topic).

I really should be using pthreads anyway for portability reasons. I wonder if pthreads can be killed? If so, that would be great. I would make the switch in a heartbeat if that were the case.

Anyone know if pthreads can be killed from the main thread?

- Philip


On Monday, December 30, 2002, at 04:22 AM, David Rio Vierra wrote:

This is probably the worst idea in the history of threaded programming, but have you considered implementing the timeout yourself by running gethostbyaddr() in a second thread, having your first thread sleep for a while, then kill the second if it hasn't found the hostent?

On Monday, December 30, 2002, at 12:09 AM, Philip George wrote:

I'm using gethostbyaddr() right now, but I'm open for any straight-C suggestions. I must set a quicker timeout on the lookup. The default timeout is way too long for gethostbyaddr().

Thanks.

- Philip
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