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Re: v2 of patch to fix busy-waiting during Windows async name lookup

From: Constantine Sapuntzakis <csapuntz_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 09:11:28 -0700

> The situation with no descriptors also occur with the standard synchronous
> name resolver on all *nix-like systems. Which is default on all linux
> distros and more.
>
> Wouldn't the synchronous name resolver just block the calling thread - so
it wouldn't have to worry about calling select with no descriptors?

-Costa
Received on 2009-09-07