Re: DNS code changes

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 06:07:08PM +0100, Georg Potthast wrote:
> Sorry for posting three times I had the impression my emails got
> lost somehow.

It seems there was some issue with the mailing list.

> 
> DOS is basically a single-tasking system. So you cannot fork a new
> process and threads do not work well. A thread, as it is currently
> implemented for DOS/DJGPP, should yield when it is done and a
> different thread can continue. So I try to avoid threads and use
> function calls instead if I can.

We still use threads only for asynchronous DNS resolution and this
can be disabled as before with --disable-threaded-dns.
Let us know if there are new issues with the currently committed
version.

Cheers,
Johannes