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		rfl890 70 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: RIP pthread_cancel >Windows 8 and above also have their own asynchronous DNS API on NON-POSIX land. Interesting. Which API?

poizan42 70 days ago [–]

GetAddrInfoEx[0] has async support support since Windows 8 - it had the overlapped parameters earlier but didn't support them. I'm guessing that is what GP is referring to.

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/ws2tcpip...

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