gethostbyname() and resolv.conf updates

[Nicolas Chauvet]

2010/6/17 Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org>:
> Hello,
>
> xchat in Fedora needs to be restarted after switching to a different
> nameserver or it fails to resolve.
>
> The xchat developers say that all xchat does is call gethostbyname(). A
There was a topic 3 years ago  about replacing gethostby* functions by
getaddrinfo
Is this still relevant?

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2007-October/112483.html
http://udrepper.livejournal.com/16116.html

Nicolas (kwizart)