Extend configure.sample and the relevant spec part

[exim.git] / src / src / os.c

diff --git a/src/src/os.c b/src/src/os.c
index 07514b5cf04fa785ff9db6f53e4a77c46d767fea..ee754f9f2689c44461aa56dad2f16cf72c05595f 100644 (file)
--- a/src/src/os.c
+++ b/src/src/os.c
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 *     Exim - an Internet mail transport agent    *
 *************************************************/
 
-/* Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 1995 - 2009 */
+/* Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 1995 - 2014 */
 /* See the file NOTICE for conditions of use and distribution. */
 
 #ifdef STAND_ALONE
@@ -795,6 +795,50 @@ return yield;
 
 
 
+/* ----------------------------------------------------------------------- */
+
+/***********************************************************
+*                 DNS Resolver Base Finder                 *
+***********************************************************/
+
+/* We need to be able to set options for the system resolver(5), historically
+made available as _res.  At least one OS (NetBSD) now no longer provides this
+directly, instead making you call a function per thread to get a handle.
+Other OSs handle thread-safe resolver differently, in ways which fail if the
+programmer creates their own structs. */
+
+#if !defined(OS_GET_DNS_RESOLVER_RES) && !defined(COMPILE_UTILITY)
+
+#include <resolv.h>
+
+/* confirmed that res_state is typedef'd as a struct* on BSD and Linux, will
+find out how unportable it is on other OSes, but most resolver implementations
+should be descended from ISC's bind.
+
+Linux and BSD do:
+  define _res (*__res_state())
+identically.  We just can't rely on __foo functions.  It's surprising that use
+of _res has been as portable as it has, for so long.
+
+So, since _res works everywhere, and everything can decode the struct, I'm
+going to gamble that res_state is a typedef everywhere and use that as the
+return type.
+*/
+
+res_state
+os_get_dns_resolver_res(void)
+{
+  return &_res;
+}
+
+#endif /* OS_GET_DNS_RESOLVER_RES */
+
+
+/* ----------------------------------------------------------------------- */
+
+
+
+
 
 /*************************************************
 **************************************************