[Xastir-dev] Forking for hostname lookup

[Curt, WE7U]

On Fri, 7 May 2010, Jason Godfrey wrote:

> Currently xastir does a fork when it does a DNS lookup. I'm wondering
> if the developers still consider that useful. My guess is yes, but I
> thought I would ask.

The reason that was done was to provide a timeout for if/when the
lookup does not succeed.  If you come up with a different way to
provide that functionality w/o forking, by all means do so.

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