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Re: gethostbyname

To: Andrew Lunn <andrew dot lunn at ascom dot ch>
Subject: Re: [ECOS] gethostbyname
From: Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour at redhat dot com>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 14:47:15 +0100
Cc: Dan Conti <danc at iobjects dot com>,"Ecos-Discuss (E-mail)" <ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>
Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd.
References: <D8DFF0AFE792914996F997E68FEC3A48F325@bunker.iobjects.com> <20010814092701.D4365@biferten.ma.tech.ascom.ch>

Andrew Lunn wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 04:11:18PM -0700, Dan Conti wrote:
> > i wrote a simple dns client for eCos and was looking at adding it into
> > the kernel and, naturally, populating gethostbyname()
> 
> Its not part of the kernel, its part of the network stack. You should
> place it into packages/net/tcpip/current/src/lib/

Actually, it shouldn't use any private interfaces - only public ones, so it
should live in its own package. That way different network stacks (e.g. the
mini one RedBoot uses) can use it.

Jifl
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