[CFR] Upgrading base version of our resolver in libc to BIND9

Hajimu UMEMOTO ume at FreeBSD.org
Tue Mar 14 15:09:46 UTC 2006


Hi,

>>>>> On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 15:33:03 +0300
>>>>> Gleb Smirnoff <glebius at FreeBSD.org> said:

glebius> On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 02:08:50AM +0900, Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote:
H> Since, res_sendsigned(3) and the friends use MD5 functions, it is hard
H> to include them without having MD5 functions in libc.  So, I'll not
H> merge them into libc.

glebius> Why not add MD5 functions to our libc?

Yup, we have libmd separately.
Since, we are not using res_sendsigned(3), we don't need to add it in
libc, for now.  If it is required, we can add it later.  Adding
functions is easy, but removing functions is painful.

Sincerely,

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