gethostbyname() and resolv.conf updates

[Jason L Tibbitts III]

>>>>> "BI" == Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> writes:

BI> A Debian user told me that Debian carries a glibc patch to make
BI> processes notice resolv.conf updates and reload it.  Is there any
BI> chance we could apply the same patch in Fedora too? I don't know all
BI> the details, but I guess there might be a good reason why this patch
BI> wasn't upstreamed yet.

Well, it never hurts to search bugzilla.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=442172 is, I believe, on
point.  There's also
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=565880.  However, I'm not
sure if or how sssd makes any difference here.

 - J<