[Dnsmasq-discuss] Why doesn't dnsmasq poll or inotify on hosts and resolve.conf?

[Franco Broi]

resolv.conf is polled, hosts isn't because it's dangerous, ie the hosts file could be incomplete when read. There have been a few posts about this quite recently.

On 29 Apr 2014 20:17, Timo Buhrmester <fstd.lkml at gmail.com> wrote:
> poll
Solves a different problem

> inotify
Linux specific

(is my guess for why this isn't done)

   Timo

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