Re: [PATH] Support resolvconf

[Roy Marples <roy marples name>]

On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 22:20 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 03:49 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > Roy Marples wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 01:01 +0200, Alexander Sack wrote:
> > 
> > >> For the domain/search tweakage: I feel unsure about this (though I kept
> > >> this part of your patch untouched for now). This is quite a specific
> > >> feature you want to implicitly entrench here. Maybe we can push
> > >> that back until we know if and how we want to implement such a
> > >> feature?
> > > 
> > > There's no real need to push it back.
> > > NM currently folds domain into searches, so there's no need to actually
> > > use domain at all.
> > 
> > Hi Roy,
> > 
> > I agree with Alex here.
> > Could you please split up the patch into two, so we can address those
> > two issues separately.
> > I think the resolvconf part is fine.
> > Dan, if you are ok with it also, I'd be going to commit this, unless you
> > beat me to it ;-)
> 
> It looks OK, except for one change.  Not sure where we left the
> conversation last, but I'm not sure if just because resolvconf is
> installed means that it's actually being used.  Most of the time you can
> have a package installed, but you don't have to enable it.  For the
> moment, I'd suggest either (1) #ifdef-ing the resolvconf specific stuff
> with #ifdef DEBIAN, or (2) adding a configure switch for
> --with-resolv-conf=yes which would #define USE_RESOLVCONF, and then
> protect the resolvconf stuff with #ifdef USE_RESOLVCONF.

Would you like the path hardcoded instead of iterating through PATH at
runtime?

USE_RESOLVCONF would be better as there are implementation on systems
other than Debian ;)

> 
> > For the domain/search changes, I'd like to take a separate look.
> 
> Agreed, though I think the behavior change here is just to make searches
> > domain, while right now it's the other way around.  I'm not exactly
> sure whether that's the right thing to do but we should probably be
> following the current standards and doing backwards-compat as the
> fallback unless there's a major problem.

That's fair enough. Still, I don't know of a single libc implemention
that allows both domain and searches in resolv.conf

Thanks

Roy