From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755609Ab1CHPKS (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Mar 2011 10:10:18 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:15035 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755247Ab1CHPKP (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Mar 2011 10:10:15 -0500 Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd. Registered Address: Red Hat UK Ltd, Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SI4 1TE, United Kingdom. Registered in England and Wales under Company Registration No. 3798903 In-Reply-To: <20110307160042.2ddc8e65@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> References: <20110307160042.2ddc8e65@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20110307150208.28218.89348.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <20110307150218.28218.84916.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> To: Alan Cox Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, keyrings@linux-nfs.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Define ENONAMESERVICE and ENAMEUNKNOWN to indicate name service errors Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 15:09:59 +0000 Message-ID: <14977.1299596999@redhat.com> From: David Howells Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox wrote: > > Define ENONAMESERVICE to indicate "Network name service unavailable". > > This can be used to indicate, for example, that an attempt was made by > > dns_query() to make a query, but the name server (e.g. a DNS server) it is > > supposed to contact didn't answer or that it couldn't determine the > > location of a suitable server. > > Are these in glibc and are there glibc patches submitted and accepted for > this ? No. Are you saying that I should push them through glibc first - and then submit them to the kernel? Does the kernel lead or the C library? And, if the latter, which C library? Can I not, for instance, push them through uclibc, say? Does submitting to glibc mean I have to sign my copyrights over to the FSF for that code? I've never gone through this process. David