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Re: heimdal 0.51 resolve

To: "Howard Chu" <hyc@highlandsun.com>
Subject: Re: heimdal 0.51 resolve
From: joda@pdc.kth.se (Johan Danielsson)
Date: 18 Dec 2002 18:55:12 +0100
Cc: <heimdal-discuss@sics.se>
In-Reply-To: "Howard Chu"'s message of "Sun, 15 Dec 2002 17:14:26 -0800"
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"Howard Chu" <hyc@highlandsun.com> writes:

> The configure script fails to detect res_nsearch() because the test
> program only provides 5 arguments and res_nsearch() takes 6.

Ah, fixed now. Thanks.

> In lib/roken/resolve.c HAVE_RES_NSEARCH is explicitly #undefine'd,
> so even when the configure script is fixed it won't get used.

The reason it's undefed is that the implementation I was using (AIX)
was rather severely buggy. The res_state struct expected by
res_nsearch was much larger than the one found in resolv.h, resulting
in memory corruption.

/Johan

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