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.
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