Regression in libbind's resolver initialization

Mark Andrews Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Fri Jul 6 03:02:25 UTC 2007


> In the 2.5 months since I last applied HP-UX patches to this system,
> the following compiler/linker patches (among 203 others) got applied
> in the latest go-around:
> 
>   PHSS_36336   11.23 linker + fdp cumulative patch
>   PHSS_36343   11.23 aC++ Runtime
>   PHSS_36344   11.23 Math Library Cumulative Patch
>   PHSS_36345   11.23 Integrity Unwind Library
>   PHSS_36347   11.23 assembler patch
> 
> After recompiling libbind from v9.5.0a5 with Mark's res_init()
> patches, Vixie's dnscap program is finally running on the Itanium.
> What a colossal timesink this kind of issue can be :-(

	I suspect that something wasn't initialising (zeroing) the
	__res_state structure correctly.
 
	Mark
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