Re: dns and software, was Re: Reliable Cloud host ?

[William Herrin <bill () herrin us>]

On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 8:47 PM, Owen DeLong <owen () delong com> wrote:
> On Mar 1, 2012, at 5:15 PM, William Herrin wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 8:02 PM, Owen DeLong <owen () 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.

You know, when I wrote 'socket=connect("www.google.com",80,TCP);' I
stopped and thought to myself, "I wonder if I should change that to
'connectbyname' instead just to make it clear that I'm not replacing
the existing connect() call?" But then I thought, "No, there's a
thousand ways someone determined to misunderstand what I'm saying will
find to misunderstand it. To someone who wants to understand my point,
this is crystal clear."

-Bill


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