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Re: [PATCH] Add comment to gethnamaddr.c to warn that the file is unmaintained
- From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>
- To: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>, Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 14:42:14 -0400
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add comment to gethnamaddr.c to warn that the file is unmaintained
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On 07/01/2014 10:23 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@redhat.com> writes:
>
>> Looks like it can't be removed. The file is linked into libresolv.so
>> and it exports some _gethst* and res_gethost* functions, that are not
>> documented so I'm assuming we don't knowingly support them.
>
> I think we should deprecate these interfaces then.
I'm not opposed to that, however, someone needs to think deeply about
this and the applications the might use these interfaces. Seems like
a bad thing to do just before a freeze.
Cheers,
Carlos.