Pierce Lopez

I'm still not sure what "root namespace" is in this context, but to use your own locally compiled libevent instead of your system libevent, you just need to build and...

> It appears that you are trying to link multiple different-version copies of libevent into the same binary. It seems this is the case you are worrying about. > If...

(I'm guessing that may have been due to nss_ldap, a glibc user resolver plugin, which could be linked into practically all processes in the system if glibc loads it. libevent...

Debian is the same as other linux systems. The "namespace of symbols" is only shared among libraries loaded into a process, two separate processes need not share any libraries. The...

looks like at least one existing test also needs to be updated: ``` FAIL ../test/regress_dns.c:1130: assert(r.addrs == NULL): 0x7ffe7ba50cf0 vs (nil)dns/disable_when_inactive_no_ns: dns/tcp_resolve: FAIL ../test/regress_dns.c:2560: assert(r.type != DNS_IPv4_A) ```

> how likely it is that we'll break a whole lot of projects I think it's _unlikely_, most would probably check that `result != DNS_ERR_NONE` and then ignore type because...

The eventloop probably called evhttp's own close callback before your callback got to the request. Try using `evhttp_connection_set_closecb()`

Are you using libevent-2.1.8?

"Longpolling" is where the client makes an http request, the server receives it, but then the server does not respond for a while. If some time later a message for...

I noticed that the "regular callback" is called, with `NULL` for the request struct pointer, if the request times-out. It seems to be called with the real request struct pointer,...