-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Bernie Innocenti wrote: > Hello, > > xchat in Fedora needs to be restarted after switching to a different > nameserver or it fails to resolve. > > The xchat developers say that all xchat does is call gethostbyname(). A > Debian user told me that Debian carries a glibc patch to make processes > notice resolv.conf updates and reload it. > > Is there any chance we could apply the same patch in Fedora too? I don't > know all the details, but I guess there might be a good reason why this > patch wasn't upstreamed yet. > I dont think we should patch glibc, unless its upstream. Looking at the thread at: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2004-09/msg00109.html it does not appear this patch would make it upstream though. - -- Regards, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala, RHCE, CCNA (IRC: huzaifas) GnuPG Fingerprint: 3A0F DAFB 9279 02ED 273B FFE9 CC70 DCF2 DA5B DAE5 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Red Hat - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iD8DBQFMGudszHDc8tpb2uURApicAJsFY4D+T59/oLPCMpsPuYMQX4xVVACeK589 3YToGCKcXX0OO8OkqKJJlw8= =USCv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
