On Mar 1, 2012, at 5:15 PM, William Herrin wrote: > On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 8:02 PM, Owen DeLong <o...@delong.com> wrote: >> There's no need to >> break the current functionality of the underlying system calls and >> libc functions which would be needed by any such library anyway. > > Owen, > > Point to one sentence written by anybody in this entire thread in > which breaking current functionality was proposed. > When you said that:
connect(char *name, uint16_t port) should work That can't work without breaking the existing functionality of the connect() system call. > >>> And because most everybody has made more or less the same errors, the >>> DNS TTL fails to cause their applications to work as intended and >>> loses its utility as a tool to facilitate renumbering. >> >> Since I don't write applications for a living, I will admit I haven't >> rigorously >> tested any of the libraries out there, but, I'm willing to bet that someone, >> somewhere has probably written a good one by now. > > Yeah, and if you give me a few weeks I can probably find it amidst all > the others which aren't so hot. > I doubt it would take weeks, but, in any case, it's probably faster than writing and debugging your own. Owen
