On Wed, 26 May 2010, Dima Q wrote:

> Howard, I've seen similar arguments, gnu libc folks used at least since 2004
> and yet modern distros (tested gentoo and ubuntu) somehow managed to work
> around this, evident in strace output for curl built with glibc resolver -
> there is 1 (or sometimes 2) stat64("/etc/resolv.conf") for each request that
> opens a new socket. Not so with c-ares.

Yes, didn't I mention that glibc has adressed this issue?

> I think c-ares should be at least as good as glibc resolver, not worse.

You are VERY welcome to participate and improve c-ares, as is everyone else.
That project needs more active people to get involved.

I'm currently maintaining several open source libraries (including c-ares),
and beleive me, when the libs and maintanance aren't part of your daily job,
one or more of the projects will get neglected a bit too much. Spare time is
limited and there are so many things to spend it on...

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  / daniel.haxx.se
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