PowerDNS/pdns — pull request #1135 by mzealey (2013-12-02 09:52:59+00:00)
Title: fixes PowerDNS/pdns#650

The attached patch changes the distributor code in the following ways:

1) Remove (as far as i can see) unused functions which allow for the fetching of the answer from an answers queue. I struggle to understand why this would ever be useful compared to having a callback; it also reduces code complexity and removes some locks. Also allows (2):
2) Split into 3 classes - the new ones being SingleThreadDistributor and MultiThreadDistributor - removes some of the conditional statements. It also means that in distributor-threads=1 mode, NO additional distributor threads are forked (unlike the existing code), and the class will also use less memory and generally be more efficient.

This has been tested in that the pdns server starts up and answers questions correctly in both modes, it's more of an RFC attempt to clean up the code a bit.