[uClibc]gethostbyname/alarm

[Erik Andersen]

On Mon Apr 01, 2002 at 08:34:47PM -0800, Jim Treadway wrote:
> 
> I ran into an unexpected use of alarm() in uClibc (well, actually in the 
> old "uC-libc" version used by the uClinux-coldfire stuff, but the same 
> thing is still present in the CVS for uClibc).
> 
> The following patch rewrites the dns_lookup() function to use select() 
> for timeouts rather than alarm(); it's against the older version because 
> that's all that I can easily test ;) but I think it should be fairly easy 
> to merge this into the CVS version.

Cool thanks, applied,

 -Erik

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