Does named use multithreading?

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 08:38:39PM +0100, Christophe Deleuze wrote:
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> Well, I haven't look into bind8 source,code but I would be *very* surprised
> that it be unable to process many requests in parallel.  Why couldn't it
> start to process a request while it is waiting for an answer for a previous
> request it started processing.  When it receives a reply, it can associate
> it to one of the pending requests through a request ID.  There's no need of
> multi threading support to do that.

David Conrad's definitive answer shows that I hadn't looked into that
part of the code, either.  You are right.

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