Re: Pretest?

[Kim F. Storm]

YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <address@hidden> writes:

>> I am not familiar with getaddrinfo.  Why do users want to be able to
>> interrupt it?  Is that because it communicates with a DNS server?
>
> I'm not certain about that, but I guess the assignments to
> immediate_quit were copied from those around gethostbyname when the
> getaddrinfo support was added.

At least gethostbyname can potentially block for 3 minutes (waiting
for DNS responses) - so I assumed getaddrinfo could do the same.

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