From: Ulrich Drepper Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 01:18:30 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Update resolver news. X-Git-Tag: upstream/2.30~24887 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d3436b3cc3d96539a9cc4208c1fb21d854f46c64;p=external%2Fglibc.git Update resolver news. --- diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index d648c45..95cddc7 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -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).