[distcc] [PATCH] timeout for gethostbyname and connect

[Tim Potter]

On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 08:59:47PM +0200, Jonas Jensen wrote:

> This patch lets the user set the environment variable DISTCC_TIMEOUT to
> control how long distcc will wait for the dns lookup and connection.
> Without this patch, distcc would wait for several minutes when a host or
> a dns server was down.

I wrote a patch similar to this for Samba that didn't end up being
applied.  I used the __res_state structure described in
/usr/include/resolv.h which allows you to set various properties of
the resolver library, including timeout values.

I thought I would suggest it in case people don't like using longjmp.


Tim.