[distcc] [PATCH] timeout for gethostbyname and connect

[Tim Potter]

On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 11:27:26PM +0100, Jonas Jensen wrote:

> > 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.
> 
> Yeah, longjmp isn't pretty, but does __res_state work with other
> resolvers than glibc? (BSD, cygwin, etc.)

Nope!  That is a shortcoming of this method.  (-:


Tim.