libbind vs. libc & libresolv problems

[Adam Tkac]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 11:36:40AM -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 12:25 +0200, Adam Tkac wrote:
> > with https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=441429 this problem
> > became serious. We have two DNS resolver related libraries - libbind
> > from ISC on the one side and on the other side libc + libresolv from
> > GNU libc. Both libraries contains same symbols, does same work but
> > GNU libc implementation hides some symbols whose are sometimes needed
> > and this is reason why people linking against libbind (GNU libc is
> > stripped libbind source). Bug written above is one example that this
> > situation has to be solved.
> 
> slviewer solved this by using c-ares instead.

Yes, there are many resolver libraries but interface used in libbind
and libresolv is well known and vast majority of programs uses it.
Also using of c-ares (for example) doesn't solve problem that glibc
symbols conflict with libbind symbols.

Adam

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Adam Tkac, Red Hat, Inc.