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

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/48566; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
To: manu%netbsd.org@localhost (Emmanuel Dreyfus), 
gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, 
        jnemeth%NetBSD.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, 
pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: pkg/48566 (getpwnam() fix and ECDH for sendmail from upstream)
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 21:47:44 -0400

 On Jun 18,  3:47am, manu%netbsd.org@localhost (Emmanuel Dreyfus) wrote:
 -- Subject: Re: pkg/48566 (getpwnam() fix and ECDH for sendmail from upstream
 
 | Christos Zoulas <christos%zoulas.com@localhost> wrote:
 | 
 | > As long as it is not actually using threads and _res gets resolved to the
 | > libc one instead of the libpthread one it should be ok. In the long term
 | > it is better to use the new resolver functions though.
 | 
 | Sure but such an intrusive change should first go upstream for review,
 | IMO. We do not want to fork Sendmail, do we?
 
 I sent a similar patch to postfix a year ago and it is part of the postfix
 source already; it is not that intrusive.
 
 christos