From fw at ferncast.de  Mon Mar  2 10:54:15 2020
From: fw at ferncast.de (Florian Wickert)
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2020 09:54:15 +0100
Subject: [rtmpdump] [PATCH] replace gethostbyname with getaddrinfo
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 <4cdfd975a83c4d41f5effb59b228af3c59642d31.camel@infradead.org>
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Thats right, getaddrinfo also supports IPv6 but my patch is only a 
drop-in replacement to fix threading problems.
Due to a serious lack of time I have to leave this to someone else 
unfortunately.

On 2/28/20 1:13 PM, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Thu, 2020-01-30 at 12:29 +0100, Florian Wickert wrote:
>>   From c8bbf52e7a46ab238da1bd59d2afb98f6b46359c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00
>> 2001
>> From: Florian Wickert <fw at ferncast.de>
>> Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2020 10:47:19 +0100
>> Subject: [PATCH 1/1] replace gethostbyname with getaddrinfo
>>
>> getaddrinfo is guaranteed to be thread-safe in contrast to
>> gethostbyname.
> It also allows us to support IPv6, but I note your patch doesn't do
> that. Could it?
>
> This year marks the 25th anniversary of the publication of RFC1883, so
> it would only be a quarter of a century behind the times... :)

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