[Xastir-dev] Forking for hostname lookup

[Jason Godfrey]

OK, that's kind of what I guessed.

Thanks
- Jason

On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Curt, WE7U <curt.we7u at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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