Re: xemacs slow when network down

Sean> If I change the ai_family from PF_UNSPEC (it is currently Sean> AF_UNSPEC) to PF_INET, the problem goes away. Sean> Now, how do we make sure this dosen't get dropped again? SJT> PROBLEMS file, I guess? SJT> There's a "slow startup on Linux" item. Maybe Martin has an opinion SJT> about whether this should be generalized to "Slow Startup / Often SJT> reported on Linux"? Martin has the opinion that he should take a month and really fix the problem. Martin vaguely recalls there was a problem with getaddrinfo in Red Hat 6.0 (and presumably other Linuxen) that was fixed in 6.1. Hideaki had a patch, but its GPL-compatibility was in question and it needed some more work to properly lispify/autoconfiscate. Martin thinks that /etc/nsswitch.conf (see nsswitch.conf(5)) should control whether dns is consulted before /etc/hosts. SJT> Possibly we also ought to consider implementing a Lisp variable and SJT> maybe a command line option (since the lookup is pretty early) to SJT> implement the solution you're using. Creating yet another lisp variable is relatively easy. It's harder to know exactly what the Right Thing is.