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authorUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>2000-05-28 19:32:08 +0000
committerUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>2000-05-28 19:32:08 +0000
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Update.
2000-05-28 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> * resolv/inet_pton.c: Loose __P.
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-GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2000-01-02
+GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2000-05-28
Copyright (C) 1992-1999, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
See the end for copying conditions.
@@ -23,8 +23,11 @@ Version 2.2
* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.2-5 which supports
- threads. No changes should be necessary for user programs. The
- integration was done by Andreas Jaeger and Adam D. Bradley.
+ threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger and Adam D. Bradley.
+
+ This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
+ now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
+ in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library