Re: Asynchronous DNS resolving

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

> Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
>> A few years back I looked into making the Emacs domain lookup thing be
>> asynchronous, but that was way beyond my knowledge of Emacs internals,
>> and what happens when I fork Emacs, and what Emacs Lisp primitives can
>> be used in the forked instance.
>
> Nowadays there is getaddrinfo_a; will that do?

Sure; if you can get Emacs to provide an interface to that function with
an async callback, that would be great.  A process filter on the lookup,
perhaps?

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