Subject: Re: re-reading /etc/resolv.conf on change
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 12/31/2003 12:56:08
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr> writes:
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 09:47:38AM -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>> sjg@crufty.net (Simon J. Gerraty) writes:
>> > Is kqueue the right solution then? How bad would it be to simply
>> > open resolv.conf and fstat it?
>>
>> I think that might actually be the right solution.
>
> I don't think so, see my previous answerw. To catch all the possible changes
> kqueue does, you need stat(), not fstat().
Fine. Either way, though, we win.
Perry