On Tuesday 08 February 2011 04:54:35 Dima Tisnek wrote: > I finally got to the point where I would be willing to conribute a > patch to re-read resolv.conf.
> optionally, add an explicit function call to force /etc reload and re-parse. IHMO this is the most usefull approach. > what would a reasonable value for X seconds be? Polling is always an ugly solution. If you really want to poll /etc for changes every X seconds, then that X should be configurable. But I would use (on Linux) inotify (in my program, not libcurl) to watch resolv.conf etc. for changes and trigger the reload function. Just my 2ct, Dirk Manske. ------------------------------------------------------------------- List admin: http://cool.haxx.se/list/listinfo/curl-library Etiquette: http://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html
