The following reply was made to PR bin/29654; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Christian Biere <christianbiere@gmx.de>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/29654
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 03:41:45 +0100

 For the record, there's workaround (hack?) that makes this problem
 disappear at least for some cases:
 
 > Elad Efrat wrote:
 > > Christian Biere wrote:
 > > In sys/kern/kern_systrace.c locate the call to tsleep() with the
 > > ident "systrmsg". Then, change the last argument from 0 to 100.
  
 > Yes, after this change, links does not hang anymore if I enable its
 > asynchronous DNS option.
 
 By the way, since "links" is not multi-threaded, the synopsis of
 this PR is actually wrong.
 
 -- 
 Christian