Re: Asynchronous DNS

[Paul Eggert]

Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> I wonder whether I should perhaps start rewriting the getaddrinfo_a code
> to, well, not use getaddrinfo_a, but instead our own function that
> starts a thread and just calls getaddrinfo/gethostbyname.  That would
> make this stuff work on BSD, Apple and Windows, too, I think?

Should work, yes. But shouldn't this be a Gnulib module? That way, the main part 
of the Emacs source code could simply assume that getaddrinfo_a works, and a 
Gnulib substitute would be built on platforms where it doesn't.