Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 21:24:35 -0700 From: Doug <Doug@gorean.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gethostbyaddr() and threads. Message-ID: <37B79283.26E5253A@gorean.org> References: <199908140241.TAA25764@usr04.primenet.com>
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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
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