Bug#272265: ping
On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 03:40:47PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 01:49:57PM -0400, Clint Adams wrote:
> > > I'm interested in this, too. Could you consider that patch for next upload?
> >
> > You want each program statting /etc/resolv.conf all the time?
>
> Why not? The amount of data is very small, and would be cached by the kernel.
>
> Besides, the stats only would happen when attempting to resolve a hostname
> (which has a much higher cost in system resources then a simple stat). I don't
> think the overhead would be significant.
FWIW, we did this in Ubuntu for Dapper and it works very well. I have a
quilt file for 2.3/2.4 that I could put in if everyone agrees.
Tks,
Jeff Bailey
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