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Subject: Re: RFC: Automatically Reloading /etc/resolv.conf
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On 10/08/2015 11:30, Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote:
> vangyzen> I would like to change the libc resolver to automatically reload
> vangyzen> /etc/resolv.conf when the latter changes.  I would like to hear opinions
> vangyzen> about the implementation.
>
> When I proposed it in the past, it ended up with dns/nss_resinit port.
> Please take a look at it for reference.

Nice.  That's exactly what I want to do in libc.  Doing it in nss is a
clever way to avoid changing libc.  Thanks for the pointer.

Eric