Re: pkg/48566 (getpwnam() fix and ECDH for sendmail from upstream)

[Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd%twofifty.com@localhost>]

On Tue, 17 Jun 2014, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:

> Christos Zoulas <christos%zoulas.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> > If you are threaded and you use _res you'll break with NetBSD because we
> > don't allow that.
>
> Sendmail is not threaded, hence it is perfectly fine to use __res. I
> must confess I do not understand why this change was done. The commit
> message says:
> - convert to use res_n* functions
>  - allows for linking against threaded libraries
>
> But I do not know what case we are talking about. I already link
> sendmail with a SASL plugin that does not use threads, but pulls
> -lpthread through other libraries, and it works fine, hence it is not
> the problem we have here.

IIRC, this broke my sendmail last time someone tried it. It is what
finally got me to change to postfix.

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