On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 02:46:59PM -0400, Glenn F. Maynard wrote:
> Well, gdb in Debian unstable still has that fork bug, so here's a patch
> to work around it; use-fork is always off in gdb.
I did another change, less linux-specific. Funny that forked child does
not fault after one lookup done without fork.
--- Resolver.cc 2001/07/30 14:39:13 1.47
+++ Resolver.cc 2001/08/28 09:20:04
@@ -278,6 +279,15 @@
if((unsigned)n<sizeof(sockaddr_u))
{
proto_error:
+ if(use_fork)
+ {
+ // e.g. under gdb child fails.
+ Log::global->Format(4,"**** %s\n","child failed, retrying with
+dns:use-fork=no");
+ use_fork=false;
+ Delete(buf);
+ buf=0;
+ return MOVED;
+ }
// protocol error
err_msg=xstrdup(_("child returned invalid data"));
done=true;
--
Alexander.
