Subject: Re: ares_fds() successor

Re: ares_fds() successor

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: 2005-02-17

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Adam D. Moss wrote:

>> I'm thinking we could do something very similar in c-ares as well. Any
>> comments on this? Good? Bad?
>
> I don't understand the problem which this solves, so I can't say, but for
> the sake of a response I trust the decision of the c-ares devs.

It would allow apps using c-ares to wait for socket action using other methods
than select(). This is necessary to avoid the FD_SETSIZE problem (a fixed
array) and it also allows c-ares to better fit in apps using poll() or
similar functions.

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