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Re: [Lynx-dev] Name resolution mechanism
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Thomas Dickey |
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Re: [Lynx-dev] Name resolution mechanism |
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Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:41:22 -0500 |
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On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 05:32:10PM +0530, Bhatnagar Achindra wrote:
> Hi,
> This is not a bug report but rather a developer query. I had no other
> address except this.
> Please forward to the developer mailing list, if any.
>
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> >From the source I could not find the mechanism with which a name
> resolution is done. eg; gethostbyname(). Can you please help me
> understand the mechanism.
gethostbyname() is a system-specific function (actually implemented on
many systems). lynx doesn't really have to know much about its internals.
It "could" simply look in an /etc/hosts file, but usually does more than
that.
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