[Libevent-users] evdns: How to quite event-loop

[Tassilo von Parseval]

On Nov 5, 2006, at 6:57 PM, Nick Mathewson wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 09:54:41AM +0000, Tassilo von Parseval wrote:
>  [...]
>>             I called either evdns_clear_nameservers_and_suspend
>> or evdns_shutdown, both to no avail: the first would segfault while
>> the second tickled an assertion.
>>
>> How can I make sure that an application doesn't get stuck in the
>> mainloop when using libevent's DNS lookups?
>
> Hi, Tassilo!  Segfaults and assertions are usually not intended
> behavior; can you provide stack traces for either?

Yes, give me a little while, please. I need to get rid of the perl  
blubber around it to turn it into a plain C program.

What I can tell you already now is that I called each of them from  
inside an active callback which may well be the culprit here.

Cheers,
Tassilo