[PATCH] resolv: Forward legacy name resolution function calls to NSS

[Carlos O'Donell]

On 07/04/2017 11:05 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> The attached patch replaces the compat name lookup functions with calls
> to the matching NSS functions.  I think this is the right thing to do
> for now.  If this turns out to break NSS modules which assume that
> calling res_gethostbyname does not call into NSS in turn, we could
> probably add a more elaborate compat implementation based on nss_dns and
> nss_files, without actually duplicating their code.
> 
> Comments?

What is the purpose of the change?

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Cheers,
Carlos.