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Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM> writes:

> ... and this binary is shipped to some other
> site that happens to have a hostname "foo", but the corresponding host
> is down or non-existent, then XEmacs will hang at startup while ld.so
> tries to contact host foo.  This has happened to me!

<Nit picking>
This really isn't a much different case than the code that hangs at
startup trying to contact DNS.
</Nit picking>
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