[Unbound-users] Enable use of select() for waiting

[W.C.A. Wijngaards]

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Hi Bjorn,

On 11/25/2013 02:57 PM, Björn Stenberg wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I'm looking into adding DANE support to libcurl using the unbound
> library. Curl has an asynchronous API that supports a high number
> of parallel connections. Some use cases involve thousands of
> parallel connections to different hosts.
> 
> My understanding of
> https://unbound.net/documentation/libunbound-tutorial-4.html is
> that the libunbound asynchronous API uses a periodic polling call
> for each separate name lookup. This means that if we have a large
> number of lookups, a lot of work has to be performed just for
> waiting.
> 
> I would like to propose that the caller gets a file descriptor for
> each lookup, so he can use select() to wait on all pending lookups
> without having to loop through them.

With ub_fd() you can get a file descriptor for all of the open queries
for that ub_context.  And then use select() to wait on it?

If libcurl uses libevent internally, there is currently an
experimental API in svn trunk libunbound/unbound-event.h that exposes
a hook where you can get unbound to add its events to your libevent
event loop.

Best regards,
   Wouter


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