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Re: [RFC][PATCH 3/4][BZ 17083] NSS: Introduce gethostbyname5_r function
Dnia 12 września 2017 12:03:00 CEST, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> napisał(a):
>On 09/05/2017 06:05 PM, Łukasz Stelmach wrote:
>> Add af (address family) to the list of arguments of gethostbyname4_r
>> function in files, dns, nis and nisplus module and rename the
>function to
>> gethostbyname5_r. Pass the af value to the underlying parsing
>functions.
>> Define gethostbyname4_r as a wrapper for the former passing af set
>> to AF_UNSPEC.
>
>I'd prefer if we have a single ultimate name resolution function,
>instead of doing function 5 now, and function 6 later, when we have
>dealt with the malloc matters.
This sounds like a major debate. Do you know who's in charge in this parts of glibc?
>One way to deal with the dlmopen/static dlopen issue would be to define
>a deallocation function which goes with the 5 function. If this
>function called free, it would automatically end up at the right
>definition.
This means almost nothing to me (-; which means, probably I am not the right guy to do it.
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