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Re: Windows people -- help needed!

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 20:30:04 +0100 (CET)

On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Chris Russell wrote:

> This is a good question. In the scheme I suggested, the worker thread (the
> one that calls gethostbyname()) may indeed block if, as empirically noted
> by the original poster, the network interface is down.

So, did you come to any conclusions regarding the suggested approach? Would
it be a working way to get a timeoutable name resolve call?

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