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authorFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2016-10-04 11:52:10 +0200
committerFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2016-12-31 18:55:14 +0100
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resolv: Deprecate the "inet6" option and RES_USE_INET6 [BZ #19582]
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* In Multi-threaded that manipulate the _res structure, calls to
functions like `gethostbyname' in threads other than the "main"
- thread won't be influenced by the those changes anymore. So if you
- set RES_USE_INET6, a call to `gethostbyname' won't return any IPv6
- hosts anymore. If you recompile such programs, manipulating the
- _res structure will affect the thread in which you do so instead of
- the "main" thread.
+ thread won't be influenced by the those changes anymore.
We recommend to use the new thread-safe interfaces in new code, since
the traditional interfaces have been deprecated by the BIND folks.