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Re: stack overflow in getaddrinfo(3) with a small-sized stack in pthreads



Mouse wrote in
 <202111292115.QAA06263%Stone.Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>:
 |>         * The maximum is 65000.
 |
 |It probably is actually 65535, or 65495, or some such; if there is a
 |limit that is actually 65000, it strikes me as unlikely to be anything
 |but someone imposing an artificial round-human-number limit.

Don't mind, that referred to my own code only.
You would (have) switch(ed) to TCP sooner that much is plain.
Today .. i would write the stub resolver more primitively and
simply rely upon some global local thing like dnsmasq or what per
se; and hope that firefox-bin can be forced to use it, too.
'Night,

--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)


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