Bug#391698: [pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#391698: fetchmail: try-restart section in init-script should call $0 restart, not $0 awaken

Matthias Andree matthias.andree at gmx.de
Sun Oct 8 15:08:42 UTC 2006


Nico Golde <nico at ngolde.de> writes:

> This DNS stuff is really annoying, I already contacted 
> upstream, maybe we'll find a solution, maybe not, hopefully 
> we do :)

Well, the problem is: there is no explicit caching of resolver, cached
results etc. in fetchmail -- and the upstream (that is me) cannot
reproduce the problem. So where do we start looking for a problem in
fetchmail's code? getaddrinfo()/freeaddrinfo() is what we're currently
doing, and once again for every run...

What I *can* say is that I have seen many a standard-violating
getaddrinfo() implementation... few are thread-safe, although IEEE Std
1003.1 mandates so.

-- 
Matthias Andree




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