[getdns-api] libevent and multiple contexts

[Tom Pusateri]

> On May 2, 2016, at 4:53 AM, Willem Toorop <willem at nlnetlabs.nl> wrote:
> 
> Op 01-05-16 om 19:29 schreef Tom Pusateri:
>> I’ve been looking at the example code in the spec and there is a function
>> getdns_extension_set_libevent_base(context, event_base).
>> 
>> I am using libevent to handle multiple DNS queries and responses but some are UDP only, some are TLS and have different context parameters.
>> 
>> So my question is, can I create several contexts and have them all point to the same libevent base?
> 
> Hi Tom,  this is perfectly possible.  One event base can be shared
> between your application and multiple getdns contexts (*).
> 
> Cheers,
> -- Willem
> 
> (*) though within the same process and thread.


Cool. I’ll try this out.

Tom

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