Re: pthreads at bmcweb

[Sunitha Harish <sunithaharish04@gmail.com>]

On 12-01-2021 18:35, Patrick Williams wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 01:32:11PM +0530, Sunitha Harish wrote:
>> Ed's suggestion is not to use the pthreads, instead implement
>> alternatives to do the same job, so that the binary size is kept
>> minimum. He mentioned: /"//Considering that's a ~30% increase in binary
>> size to support one line off code, and most systems are already at their
>> binary size limit, no, that's not going to be acceptable. We can either
>> patch boost to use this
>> //https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/getaddrinfo_a.3.html
>> <https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/getaddrinfo_a.3.html>//or we
>> could build our own resolver type that calls that underneath. This was
>> based on a quick lookthrough of solutions in Google. I'm open to other
>> ideas here". /
> Since we're using systemd and we have the `resolved` feature turned on,
> why not just send an async dbus message to the resolved.service?
>
> ```
> $ busctl introspect org.freedesktop.resolve1 /org/freedesktop/resolve1 | grep ResolveHostname
> .ResolveHostname                    method    isit          a(iiay)st                                -
> ```
>
> https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/org.freedesktop.resolve1.html

Thank you Patrick. I will try implementing this and verify if all the 
async event notification scenarios works good.

Regards,
Sunitha