On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 05:32:10PM +0530, Bhatnagar Achindra wrote: > Hi, > This is not a bug report but rather a developer query. I had no other > address except this. > Please forward to the developer mailing list, if any. > > > >From the source I could not find the mechanism with which a name > resolution is done. eg; gethostbyname(). Can you please help me > understand the mechanism.
gethostbyname() is a system-specific function (actually implemented on many systems). lynx doesn't really have to know much about its internals. It "could" simply look in an /etc/hosts file, but usually does more than that. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
