On Tuesday 08 February 2011 09:01:19 Dirk Manske wrote:
> 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.

In the Fedora installer, we use res_init(3) to force glibc to re-read
/etc/resolv.conf. It would be nice if libcurl provided a wrapper around
it and then call the c-ares specific routine in case curl is built
against c-ares.

Kamil
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