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Re: [PATCH] resolv: Forward legacy name resolution function calls to NSS
- From: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>
- To: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2017 11:17:53 -0400
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] resolv: Forward legacy name resolution function calls to NSS
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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?
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Cheers,
Carlos.