Re: exim 4.70 on NetBSD 5.0.1 failure

["J.R." <tux-pinguin%gmx.net@localhost>]

Hi,

is it possible to offer him some help? Is there maybe a development system
to test a patch?

(http://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20091117.215755.b4383cb2.en.html)
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In fact, the DNS resolution is sufficiently isolated that we *could*
implement the res_nsend API.  I don't have a NetBSD box to test any
changes on though, so I'm unwilling to write the patch.

-Phil
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> Fix:
> There should be some piece of code in exim 4.70 that uses _res directly.
> It should be rewritten with the res_n*() (res_ninit, res_nsend, ...)
> functions, which are thread-safe.
>
> See also http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?res_nsend++NetBSD-current
>
> HTH
>
> --
> Jean-Yves Migeon