Re: [patches] [PATCH] INET_ANL and IDN option groups

["Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 13 Nov 2009, Maxim Kuvyrkov wrote:

> OPTION_EGLIBC_INET_ANL option group controls libanl.so library which provides
> support for asynchronous name lookups.  None of the functions provided by this
> library are used by EGLIBC internally.  This new group separates out a piece
> of OPTION_EGLIB_INET option group.
> 
> OPTION_EGLIBC_IDN option group controls libcidn.so library.  This library
> provides support for international domain names, a feature which is not widely
> used.  When libc needs to process an internal domain name, it dlopen's
> libcidn.so to gain access to its functions.  If libcidn.so is not available,
> libc will graciously fail to process a request for international domain name.
> 
> Tested on i686-linux-gnu (cross-compiled) with and without the option groups
> selected with no regressions in the test results.
> 
> OK to check in?

This is OK.

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Joseph S. Myers
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