Hi,

On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, Waldo Bastian wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Antonio Larrosa wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm thinking that there could be a problem with the new design someone
> > (coolo?) proposed for kio.
> > If I'm not wrong (and to put it simple), there's a daemon and it forks for
> > each kio command, isn't it ?
> > If so, there could be a problem with dial-up connections.
> > It seems that the resolv.conf file is only loaded by libresolv on startup
> > of the application (in this case, when the daemon is run, or perhaps when
> > the first kio_http child is forked, I don't know, but it doesn't matter). 
> > 
> > The problem is that kppp (and similar apps) change the contents of that file,
> > so it should re-read it after the change, but this cannot happen unless you
> > restart the application. 
> > 
> > Well, I should say that I don't know much about all this except for
> > what comes in the wwwoffle FAQ (question 3.2), so I may be completely
> > wrong with this.
> 
> This is solvable. We just need to flush (kill) our io-slaves when a
> change in online-state happens. The only thing we need is a portable
> way to get to know about changes in online-state. This is being
> addressed by NetMgr and friends.

Well, is it that easy? I dial in with

isdnctrl dial ippp0

on my SuSE, since I hate automatic dialing. But isdnctrl does
for shure not tell th kio slaves to restart ...

Bye
Torben

> Cheers,
> Waldo
> 
>