From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 15 21:26:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dt011n65.san.rr.com (dt011n65.san.rr.com [204.210.13.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C5A814BD0 for ; Sun, 15 Aug 1999 21:25:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt011n65.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA14603; Sun, 15 Aug 1999 21:24:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <37B79283.26E5253A@gorean.org> Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 21:24:35 -0700 From: Doug Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT-0811 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Terry Lambert Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gethostbyaddr() and threads. References: <199908140241.TAA25764@usr04.primenet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Terry Lambert wrote: > I object because it perpetuates a situation which has made it > take this long to get the issue addressed. > > I also object because BIND 9 is currently in the works, and there > is talk of replacing the AAAA records with A6 records in the DNSEXT > working group. > > The resolver should be in a seperate library to facilitate speedy > integration of future releases, and because its designers put it > in a seperate library. > > The correct way to get historical BSD behaviour, i.e. linking libc > gives you the resolver, is to take advantage of ELF, and link the > libc against the libresolver, and thus incorporate it by reference > (if this doesn't work in FreeBSD, it should; I haven't checked). > > Of course, my ideal world would update all of the Makefiles for > all of the network utilities (including the ports) to know about > libresolver explicitly, but that's unlikely to come to pass. Here here. Think of this as a "me too," or a vote in favor of each of the points above. Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message