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

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