Re: straight-C DNS lookup with timeout?
Re: straight-C DNS lookup with timeout?
- Subject: Re: straight-C DNS lookup with timeout?
- From: Chris Ridd <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 15:03:04 +0000
On 2/1/03 2:25 pm, Philip George <email@hidden> wrote:
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Okay, I think the answer to my dns timeout problem is to go back to the
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pthread killer solution. I got the timeout to work nicely using
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pthread_cancel() and contrary to popular speculation, it doesn't
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unleash any havoc on my memory footprint.
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Here's the hitch though... gethostbyaddr() isn't threadsafe and it
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really shows. I get all kinds of whacky garbledygook from it when
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executed in separate pthreads. The answer is gethostbyaddr_r(), but no
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such animal yet exists in OS X. So, I'll need to implement my own
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gethostbyaddr_r(). Has anyone done this already or seen it somewhere
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online?
BIND 9 (www.isc.org) contains this function in the lwres (lightweight
resolver?) lib.
FreeBSD might also have something that could be easily ported, but I didn't
look very hard :-(
Cheers,
Chris
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