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Re: problems with getaddrinfo() and _res.options
- To: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <misiek at pld dot org dot pl>
- Subject: Re: problems with getaddrinfo() and _res.options
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
- Date: 25 May 2000 10:04:52 -0700
- Cc: GNU libc testers <libc-alpha at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- References: <20000522142656.A24360@ikar.t17.ds.pwr.wroc.pl>
- Reply-To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)
Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <misiek@pld.org.pl> writes:
> simpy (but I'm not sure if proper) workaround:
This patch certainly is not usable. _res is a global variable and
could be changed by other threads.
The whole nameresolving issues wrt IPv6 has to be overhauled anyway.
Getipnodeby*() will go away, gethostbyname2() will never be
standardized. I do not yet know what is the right thing to do.
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