problems with getaddrinfo() and _res.options

Ulrich Drepper drepper@redhat.com
Thu May 25 10:37:00 GMT 2000


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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