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Re: The direction of malloc?
- From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>
- Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>, Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot com>, Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>, OndÅej BÃlka <neleai at seznam dot cz>, Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at redhat dot com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 11:29:13 +0100
- Subject: Re: The direction of malloc?
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On 12/10/2013 05:49 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
I don't know about the resolver
code from BIND, a substantial body of code that I think*is* maintained
upstream of glibc but was last updated from upstream in glibc 2.2
(according to the NEWS file, anyway).
Do you mean netresolv?
<http://wiki.netbsd.org/individual-software-releases/netresolv/>
This effort doesn't seem to have materialized yet, and I think ISC's
2009 code drop was just extracted unchanged from the unmaintained
libbind from BIND 8 that still shipped with BIND 9 releases at the time.
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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team