Re: having problems using 'gethostbyname'

["David Dudley" <dldudley%gmail.com@localhost>]

The only place I can find a reference to that particular string is in
the dynamic module loaded in ld.

edm is just calling the get??? function, as far as I can tell.  the
edm modules in question are written in c++ if that makes any
difference.

I'm running NetBSD 5.99.3, if that provides any more info.

David Dudley

On 12/19/08, Michael van Elst <mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost> wrote:
> dldudley%gmail.com@localhost ("David Dudley") writes:
>
>>ktrace is a pretty handy program!
>
>>I'm including the output file to see if something can be figured from it.
>>Looks to me like it tries to open a whole sequence of files
>>unsuccessfully, and then fails.
>
> nss_dns.so doesn't exist because the dns nameservice is handled
> by libc internally. What you see looks like the libc code searching
> for an nss module.
>
> However:
>
>  17068      1 edm      GIO   fd 2 wrote 38 bytes
>        "Shared object \"nss_dns.so.0\" not found"
>
> is strange, because libc doesn't print out such a message. Also,
> the code should fall back to read /etc/hosts. I can only guess
> that the edm program (maybe the libLog.so) itself searches
> for nss modules.
>
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