xemacs slow when network down
I have been trying to track down why xemacs beta takes forever to
start when my network is down when XEmacs 21.1 worked just fine.
It turns out that `unix_canonicalize_host_name' has been changed to
call `getaddrinfo' instead of the old call to `gethostbyname' (via
`get_internet_address'). What is the advantage of 'getaddrinfo' over
'gethostbyname'?
For people like me with not-completely-reliable dsl modems, it makes
xemacs beta unusable under X.
An easy way to test this is too change all your nameservers in
/etc/resolv.conf to a bogus ip.
Sean