On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 11:36:40AM -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote: > On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 12:25 +0200, Adam Tkac wrote: > > with https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=441429 this problem > > became serious. We have two DNS resolver related libraries - libbind > > from ISC on the one side and on the other side libc + libresolv from > > GNU libc. Both libraries contains same symbols, does same work but > > GNU libc implementation hides some symbols whose are sometimes needed > > and this is reason why people linking against libbind (GNU libc is > > stripped libbind source). Bug written above is one example that this > > situation has to be solved. > > slviewer solved this by using c-ares instead. Yes, there are many resolver libraries but interface used in libbind and libresolv is well known and vast majority of programs uses it. Also using of c-ares (for example) doesn't solve problem that glibc symbols conflict with libbind symbols. Adam -- Adam Tkac, Red Hat, Inc. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
