The getaddrinfo(3), getipnodebyname(3) and resolver(3) can coincide now
with what should be totally reentrant, and h_errno values will now
be preserved correctly, but this does not affect interfaces such as
gethostbyname(3) which are still mostly non-reentrant.
In all of these relevant functions, the thread-safety has been pushed
down as far as it seems possible right now. This means that operations
that are selected via nsdispatch(3) (i.e. files, yp, dns) are protected
still under global locks that getaddrinfo(3) defines, but where possible
the locking is greatly reduced. The most noticeable improvement is
that multiple DNS lookups can now be run at the same time, and this
shows major improvement in performance of DNS-lookup threaded programs,
and solves the "Mozilla tab serialization" problem.
No single-threaded applications need to be recompiled. Multi-threaded
applications that reference "_res" to change resolver(3) options will
need to be recompiled, and ones which reference "h_errno" will also
if they desire the correct h_errno values. If the applications already
understood that _res and h_errno were not thread-safe and had their own
locking, they will see no performance improvement but will not
actually break in any way.
Please note that when NSS modules are used, or when nsdispatch(3)
defaults to adding any lookups of its own to the individual libc
_nsdispatch() calls, those MUST be reentrant as well.
- Don't connect datagram socket if RES_INSECURE1.
- Needed to implement IPv6 anycast UDP DNS queries as documented in
<draft-ietf-ipngwg-dns-discovery-03.txt>.
Obtained from: KAME
is stored in _res_ext.sort_list, and sortlist for IPv4 is stored in
_res.sort_list for backward compatibility. However, both sort_list's
are maintaind by just one index _res.nsort. So, when IPv6 address is
specified to sortlist, empty entry was created in _res.sort_list. It
broke sortlist facility of gethostbyname().
Discussed on users@jp.ipv6.org.
IPv6 transport-ready resolvers/DNS servers. Need careful configuration
when enable it. (default config is not affected).
See manpage for details.
XXX visible symbol __res_opt() is added, however, it is not supposed to be
called from outside, libc minor is not bumped.
Obtained from: KAME/NetBSD
and res_* modules in a way that works for ELF. I moved the aliases
out of res_stubs.c and into the individual modules where the entry
points are defined. Weak aliases don't work in ELF unless that is
the case. (Actually, I'm surprised it worked for a.out.)
This should fix the undefined "inet_addr" and related symbols in
various applications that fail to include <arpa/inet.h> or
<resolv.h> as they are supposed to do.
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
routines from contrib/bind directly. There were too many problems,
including having to add -DUSE_OPTIONS_H to the entire libc source in
order for the contrib code to pick up it's options, and so on.
Instead, I've merged the changes, libc is now self contained again.
Note that this was done by selective patching from diffs, to not conflict
with the 4.4bsd base code.. This was *not* a trivial task.. I have been
testing this code (apart from cosmetic changes) in my libc for a while now.
Obtained from: Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>
