On Thu, 30 Sep 1999 Martin Konold wrote:
>On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Bernd Gehrmann wrote:
>
>> > Then do non blocking IO :-) Only async DNS is a problem ...
>> 
>> No. Non-blocking IO is a problem because it forces you to
>> write state machines in a very ugly and unnatural way.
>
>Blocking IO us VERY ugly for the user. 

Only if it blocks the whole application. If it blocks one
thread, the user doesn't care.

Bernd.