From: Joseph McDonald <joe@...>
Date: 2001-02-07T16:22:16+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:10498] Re: threads and resolving names



> > Sorry, resolving by gethostbyname(3) etc block whole process.  It's a
> > pity of user level thread.
> 
> I wrote simple stub resolver in Ruby.  It lacks many features.  It
> works, for me.
> 
> If you interest, see:
> http://cvs.m17n.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/chenpi/resolv.rb?cvsroot=ruby
> http://cvs.m17n.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/chenpi/resolv-replace.rb?cvsroot=ruby
> -- 
> Tanaka Akira

FYI, this is working great for me!  The neat thing was that
I didn't have to change a line of code... just added:
require 'resolv_replace'
and everything worked, but with no blocking!

thanks,
-joe