Update resolver news.

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Ulrich Drepper 2000-08-10 01:18:30 +00:00
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* 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).