Re: nonblocking connect and threads

On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Stig Venaas wrote: > On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 09:17:14PM +0200, Sascha Schumann wrote: > > On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Stig Venaas wrote: > > > > > I see that nonblocking connects are implemented using nonblocking > > > I/O. I wonder if I should use threads instead, I'm not sure how > > > portable threads are, are most implementations similar to Pthreads? > > > > Why wouldn't you want to use non-blocking I/O? > > I think nonblocking I/O might be less standardized than threads (you > guys probably know more about this than me) Non-blocking I/O is well standardized. "Threads" is a concept, it cannot be standardized. > and I don't see how to timeout the resolving without threads. Unix: Use the resolver(3) interface Win32: Use WSAAsync* functions So, we need some level of abstraction here, since there is no portable solution to the problem (unless someone develops an asynchronous resolver under a suitable license). - Sascha