mc-4.8.14 hangs on select for 10 seconds at startup

[Felix Miata]

Mike Smithson composed on 2015-05-31 15:23 (UTC-0700):

> I'm working over a Mandriva 2011 distro ...
> On startup it hangs for 10 seconds, apparently on a select() call...

There was a hostname resolution problem causing a startup delay:
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=824729
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=912530

Maybe it actually began much earlier than the filing of those bugs?
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