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		paulddraper 3 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Async DNS IO can fail at any point though, so that’s not particularly bad.

marcosdumay 3 days ago [–]

It's particularly bad because thread interruptions are funneled into the same system as IO errors, so it's easy to consume them by mistake.

Java has that same issue.

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