On Thursday 31 January 2008 01:40, gerryw@... wrote:

> >Really what you are talking about is building yet another another
> >abstraction layer. If it were me, I would simply find one of the
> >existing abstraction layers and use it rather than trying to
> >re-engineer the existing API.
>
> No. This is precisely NOT what I'm talking about. I'm suggesting the
> addition of
> some higher level convenience functions to the existing API. This would
> be along the same lines as isc_expand_dpb(). If done properly, this would
> have no impact on the existing interface nor compromise backward
> compatibility.

Can you provide a list of functions you suggest?