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From: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>
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Subject: Re: [CFR] reflect resolv.conf update to running application
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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.

-- 
Peter Jeremy