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Subject: Re: Documentation / code sample wanted.
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On Llu, 2003-06-02 at 18:40, Jody Pearson wrote:
> I have looked over khttpd, which has been some help, and I looked briefly 
> at the nfs code, but I don't want to use RPC.
> 
> Can anybody point me to a document/code/patch to help me out ?
> 
> For more information, I basically want to emulate a userland 
> gethostbyname() in kernel space.

Thats basically impossible because gethostbyname will handle queries to
all kinds of things like LDAP or DNSSEC. Do your lookups in user space,
its a lot simpler.