> Also, anyone know where I can get a non-blocking ident (RFC1413) protocol > handler? I think the one I currently have is a blocking type (grrrr.....) and > it is slowing things down at login (since I do ban control based on login@site > as well as the standard sitebans etc.) > > Again, I don't believe that you can do this with a single threaded mud. Your > only option would be to set a shorter default timeout for the pident thing, > risking that the call would not identify the user. There is no way to have > it non-blocking and still have it wait until it gets a value. Unless you ofcourse write a function that gets the value later... which I've written a short time ago... Whether you call a blocking function at login or later, the single threaded mud will still be lag'd until either the function times out or a value is returned.
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