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Date:      Tue, 23 Aug 2005 10:26:20 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org, Matthew Reimer <mreimer@vpop.net>
Subject:   Re: [CFR] reflect resolv.conf update to running application
Message-ID:  <20050823152619.GC44859@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050823074743.GC37107@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>
References:  <200508221318.46908.mreimer@vpop.net> <20050823074743.GC37107@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>

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In the last episode (Aug 23), Peter Jeremy said:
> On Mon, 2005-Aug-22 13:18:46 -0700, Matthew Reimer wrote:
> >How about just stat'ing resolv.conf if more than X seconds has
> >passed since the last stat, rather than for every lookup?
> 
> That reduces the number of stat() calls but doesn't resolve the
> possibility of reading a half-written resolv.conf.

Easy enough to only reread the file if stat tells you it's more than 2
seconds old.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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