Re: xemacs slow when network down

mb> Hideaki had a patch, but its GPL-compatibility was in question mb> and it needed some more work to properly mb> lispify/autoconfiscate. ?? The change I mentioned in PROBLEMS was one preprocessor token, and there is no alternative for the functionality => no copyright issues. How hard could it be to control that with a Lisp variable? The only problem I can see is that the odds seem to be that the offending function is getting called way early in startup, before the Lisp engine exists. There is also From: karlheg(a)bittersweet.member.dsl-only.net (Karl M. Hegbloom) Message-ID: <8766keurdy.fsf(a)bittersweet.intra&gt; Subject: Re: ipv6 AAAA record lookup is making programs hang at startup. Date: 21 Dec 2000 00:10:01 -0800 from xemacs-beta yesterday which seems to suggest that Debian has a handle on this, and that will surely be GPL-compatible. mb> Martin thinks that /etc/nsswitch.conf (see nsswitch.conf(5)) mb> should control whether dns is consulted before /etc/hosts. /etc/hosts doesn't know squat about CNAMEs AFAIK, which is what we're getting in the part of the code that causes the problem. -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules."