Comment by LaLaLand122
3 years ago
To be fair, "getaddrinfo is _the_ path" is a shitty situation.
- It's a synchronous interface. Things like getaddrinfo_a are barely better. It has forced people to do stuff like https://c-ares.org/ for ages, which has suffered from "is not _the_ path" issues for as long
- It's a less featured interface than, for example, https://wiki.freedesktop.org/www/Software/systemd/writing-re...
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