OmniNetworking on Solaris..beware of the NSTask problem

[Tomi Engel <tomi@ebox.de>]

Hi,

thanx to everybody who helped us to get OmniNetworking for Solaris  
as quickly as possible. Its a great community.

But we ran into a serious problem that you should be aware of.


Description:

Under WebObjects 3.51 on Solaris/HPUX the NSTask class does not  
perform as expected (=is seriously broken). Since OmniNetworking uses  
a seperate process to perform the hostname lookups this will cause  
bizzare effects.

- If you run the application normally it will _hang_ while waiting  
for the reply of the lookup process.

- If you sleep( someseconds ) after a ONHost lookup it will most  
likely work.
- If you run the app under gdb and step over the lookup it will work
- If you run the application under "truss"s control it will work.


Workaround:

Gladly OmniNetworking does not use this external task if the  
hostname string is an IP address. So use the "dot"-notation IP syntax  
for your hostnames when you need ONHost on Solaris.


Aloha
	Tomi