On Wednesday, 31 August 2005, at 12:31:04 (+0900), Carsten Haitzler wrote: > ugh! ok - point taken - i dont live in any of those setups... ever! :)
Lucky you. Some of the ass-backward shit I've seen makes grown men cry. > thats true - the fork will be really lean as its copy on write only > a small stack segment will be copied over. and yes - i admit - we > need to honor nsswitch etc. etc. etc. if doing dns DIY. :) That was my thinking. fork() is relatively cheap if we don't exec(). > it's all a matter fo levels of evil i guess. god damn why did they > not just impement a proper async dns lookup to start with in libc! > ARGH! fools! :) Hindsight is always easier than foresight. :-) Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> n + 1, Inc., http://www.nplus1.net/ Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Et elle m'a dit, 'Tombe, tombe au fond de mon coeur. Les nuits sont trop longues, et j'ai un peu peur.' Et c'est comme ca qu'elle est entree dans ma vie, la fille de pluie." -- Roch Voisine ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
