'nsupdate' and not-running 'named'

[Roman Mashak]

Hello,

is it possible to get some error code from nsupdate when it's trying
to make updates while 'named' isn't running? I checked this utility
with GDB and came to know that lilbrary syscalls don't return any
error code back to calling functions (for example, res_nupdate() )

Is there any proper way except libbind hacking?
Thanks in advance.

--=20
Roman