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Bug#272265: ping



On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 11:32 +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
Jeff Bailey wrote:
> 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.
> 

So maybe we could give a try. Could you commit the patch?

Done.

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