Re: A nasty old nautilus bug, is it fixed?

[Ian McKellar <yakk yakk net>]

On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 17:16, David Bordoley wrote:
> 45582:  Can't browse the web or FTP with nautilus if I connect to the
> web after
> Nautilus is started.
> 
> I think this bug is similar to this mozilla bug 
> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63564, which deals with the
> fact that /etc/resolv.conf is read only at startup.
> 
> Is this a gnome-vfs bug and should it be moved to gnome-vfs bugzilla?

Weird.

So in GnomeVFS we just use gethostbyname (from memory). That *should*
work... I would have thought that libc would stat /etc/resolv.conf each
time thats called. I can't find the patch they applied to Mozilla to fix
this, so I don't know what they had to do.

Ian