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authorUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>2000-08-10 01:18:30 +0000
committerUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>2000-08-10 01:18:30 +0000
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Update resolver news.
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@@ -26,13 +26,17 @@ Version 2.2
* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
-* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.2-5 which supports
- threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger and Adam D. Bradley.
+* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
+ threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
+ and Mark Kettenis.
This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
+ The reoslver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
+ protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
+
* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
(conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).