On 13/08/05 Bryan Olson said: > The seperate thread-or-process trick should work. Start a deamon > thread to do the gethostbyname, and have the main thread give up > on the check if the deamon thread doesn't report (via a lock or > another socket) within, say, 8 seconds.
Wouldn't an alarm be much simpler than a whole thread just for this? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Those who would give up esential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin
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