Re: Asynchronous DNS

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2016 13:22:29 +1100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > If we introduce such a thread, its code needs to be carefully audited
> > for the above-mentioned gotchas.  E.g., passing to it a C pointer to a
> > contents of a Lisp string is probably unsafe.  It's not rocket science
> > to DTRT in this case (we already do that quite a lot on MS-Windows),
> > it just requires very careful programming and code review.
> 
> Sure.  But I think that for the getaddrinfo_a thing, it really is that
> simple.

In that case, we don't launch threads of our own; libc does.  So
that's not the case I was talking about.