Re: straight-C DNS lookup with timeout?
Re: straight-C DNS lookup with timeout?
- Subject: Re: straight-C DNS lookup with timeout?
- From: Dan Sugalski <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 09:55:19 -0500
At 12:40 AM -1000 12/30/02, David Rio Vierra wrote:
Yes, you can kill pthreads. From `man pthread`:
While you can, you really, *really* shouldn't. pthread_kill was one
of those things that seemed like a really bad idea at the time but
went into the standard under pressure anyway. Killing threads is a
good way to leave the entire application in an unstable state and
have it die a horrible death.
If you want a DNS lookup with timeout, you may have to go roll your
own lookup library. (or find one that someone's already done--might
want to look around Freshmeat.net) While not trivial, it's not that
tough to do, as it's just a UDP client.
On Monday, December 30, 2002, at 12:36 AM, Philip George wrote:
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
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