Newlib resolver [was Re: minires-0.95 - a new package ready for review]

[J. Johnston]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 07:26:27PM -0400, J. Johnston wrote:
> 
>>From the sounds of it, it belongs in winsup because it uses Windows APIs.  
>>Corinna
>>has already removed the newlib/libc/sys/cygwin directory from newlib.
> 
> 
> That's just a minor part of the story.  It uses *one* function from the
> Windows API which is used if /etc/resolve.conf is not available.
> All the rest of minires is using pure socket functionality and therefore
> just a tiny part of the lib is actually Windows dependent.  Even on Windows,
> a resolve.conf overwrites using the Windows API.
> 
> So this has nothing to do with Cygwin in the first place.  Minires
> would add a resolver lib to newlib which is 99% platform independent
> and the 1% Windows API could be appropriately ifdef'd out.
> 
> Does that sound different now?
>

Yes.  It would have to be configuration dependent so it is not built for the
majority of embedded platforms that won't have socket support.  It should
also have inlined or external documentation.

-- Jeff J.