[150712] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: dns and software, was Re: Reliable Cloud host ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Thu Mar 1 13:50:56 2012
In-Reply-To: <4F4FC0CC.9090601@mtcc.com>
From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 13:49:18 -0500
To: Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com>
Cc: Nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com> wrote:
> On 03/01/2012 08:58 AM, William Herrin wrote:
>> libc !=3D kernel. I want to move the action into the standard libraries
>> where [resolve and connect] can be done once and done well.
>> A little kernel action on top
>> to parallelize connection attempts where there are multiple candidate
>> addresses would be gravy, but not required.
>
> connect(2) is a kernel level call just like open(2), etc. It may
> have a thin wrapper, but that's OS dependent, IIRC.
>
> man connect 2:
>
> "The connect() system call connects the socket referred to by the file
> descriptor..."
Then name the new one something else and document it in man section 3.
Next objection?
-Bill
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