On Oct 24, 9:08am, t...@sarna.org (Ty Sarna) wrote: -- Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/lib/libc/resolv
| I have mdnsd doing unicast queries and monitoring resolv.conf for | changes in my tree, which partially solves this as well -- nameservers | update automatically. However, it turns out libc still has to care | about resolv.conf changing, because processing of the "search" | directive and related config like ndots all happens on the client | side. So, something like this change is still useful even if using | mdnsd for all hosts lookups. | | Unfortunately there's no way for me to use this feature currently. I | think it would be sufficient if __res_check() were exposed and | returned a flag indicating wether there was a changed or not. I will | want to do some filtering of the search list in some cases, and it'd | be better to build up my private modified copy of the search list only | when the config changes rather than trying to figure it out on every | query. That is trivial to do. If you want to make res_check() return something and expose it, go ahread. christos
