Re: Sendmail, _res and the world

[Hauke Fath <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost>]

On Tue, 28 May 2019 15:11:44 +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
>> _res is not supported for multi-threaded programs.
> [..]
>> Since blacklistd(8) is in -base, the workaround from pkg/38533 can't be 
>> copied. Is there any way out of this fix (and why exactly does it only 
>> bite NetBSD)?
> 
> Check the sendmail sources - there likely are ifdefs already available
> that use res_ninit() and some locking or a per-thread __res_state.

Sure. But it looks like mail/sendmail switches them off if you want 
SASL:

<http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/mail/sendmail/files/site.config.m4-sasl2?rev=1.3>
<https://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2018/05/03/msg026610.html>

Unfortunately, I cannot do without SASL...

Cheerio,
hauke

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