From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2021 07:37:16 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: TODO: add asynch getaddrinfo support
X-Git-Tag: curl-7_79_0~108
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=29fd16322020439d1cb3d0f532c79a0c20d88c2d;p=thirdparty%2Fcurl.git

TODO: add asynch getaddrinfo support

Closes #6746
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diff --git a/docs/TODO b/docs/TODO
index d804eb6e15..63093bf83e 100644
--- a/docs/TODO
+++ b/docs/TODO
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@
  1.29 Upgrade to websockets
  1.30 config file parsing
  1.31 erase secrets from heap/stack after use
+ 1.32 add asynch getaddrinfo support
 
  2. libcurl - multi interface
  2.1 More non-blocking
@@ -443,6 +444,15 @@
 
  https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/7268
 
+1.32 add asynch getaddrinfo support
+
+ Use getaddrinfo_a() to provide an asynch name resolver backend to libcurl
+ that doesn't use threads and doesn't depend on c-ares. The getaddrinfo_a
+ function is (probably?) glibc specific but that's a widely used libc among
+ our users.
+
+ https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/6746
+
 2. libcurl - multi interface
 
 2.1 More non-blocking