On Sun, 2011-11-13 at 12:06 +0200, Tor Lillqvist wrote: > But in general we should avoid potentially pointless DNS calls. Let's > not risk having to wait for DNS timeouts in badly configured > situations. I think there has been bug reports of OOo and/or LO being > very slow to start in some cases, where the root cause has been some > DNS call timing out?
Yes - I've seen this. I spent a while debugging the: "OO.o takes 14 seconds to start instead of 10" type bugs, which used to riddle the whole linux desktop in this situation, and that I spent time in a previous life fixing / working around. If, as Stephan suggests, we use this for .lock files - then I don't believe we should ;-) having a potential 10+ second delay before opening a file is not ideal. [ and the duplicate count for these huge login / startup delays was really quite real & included me FWIW ]. Indeed, it'd be rather nice if we could sort out our .lock files story so that I don't routinely see bogus/broken / stale lock file dialogs but ... ;-) that's a different story I guess; and one that needs some unit tests I suppose. More encouraging is Noel's suggestion that the whole thing is unused anyway ;-) Thanks for caring though & finding that mess, nice to see it much simpler in master Arnaud. ATB, Michael. -- michael.me...@suse.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice