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

[Florian Weimer]

On 07/04/2017 05:17 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> 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?

The idea is not to ship unmaintained DNS packet parsing code.

(The patch as posted lacks removal of the declarations from the
include/resolv.h header.)

Thanks,
Florian