Track resolv.conf patch in glibc

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Fri Jun 23 21:23:00 GMT 2017


On 06/23/2017 11:03 PM, Khem Raj wrote:
> Hi Joseph
> 
> eglibc has this patch applied
> 
> http://www.eglibc.org/archives/patches/msg00778.html
> 
> but this was not proposed for glibc. I wonder if this issue is still
> relevant or fixed
> otherwise

It's tracked as bug 984:

  https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=984

The patch you quoted breaks the _res interface, including internal use
by glibc within getaddrinfo.  A proper fix is rather difficult.

Thanks,
Florian



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