Resolver SWIs

[David J. Ruck]

On 4 Sep 2002 "Stewart Brodie" <stewart.brodie at pace.co.uk> wrote:
>> Any chance of support for the resolver module SWI's in OSLib?
>> 
>> Specifically Resolver_GetHostByName and Resolver_GetHost (ByAddr) and the
>> hostent structure.
> 
> The real problem is that latter call.  Just to make sure everybody is aware
> of the problems with this module, if anyone thinks that Resolver_GetHost is
> short for Resolver_GetHostByAddr, they would be wrong.

Well at least one implementation does have &46001 as Resolver_GetHostByAddr,
and the naming convention of Resolver_GetHost doesn't help to disambiguate
it.

> Resolver_GetHostByName is the blocking lookup, Resolver_GetHost is the
> asynchronous lookup.  It is not worth supporting any other interface, IMHO.
> Other resolver modules had the second SWI be the blocking gethostbyaddr()
> implementation.

Ok, noted.

>> Anymore more than that and someone will have to work out what the other
>> undocumented and contradictary SWI's in various implementations are!
> 
> The ANT SWIs are documented - there is (was) a page on their website.

I think was is the operative word.

Paul Vigay has a page on his website, can you confirm that
http://www.vigay.com/cgi-bin/r?a=inet_dns is correct.

Cheers
---Dave

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