On Feb 1 15:46, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] via Cygwin-patches wrote: > > Except, the value has no meaning for ipv6. > > It'll print all 0's :-) But: > > minires does not make use of the _ext field. It does use the conventional > nsaddr_list (which is IPv4), > but only if Windows native DNS API is not used: "osquery"(aka use_os)=0. > > For debugging purposes, that is enough and very convenient (yet the output > needed some tune-up, which I suggested in my patch).
Ok. > But for practical purposes, only Windows API should be used in regular > applications (which is the default, anyways, since > /etc/resolv.conf is not routinely provided, so "osquery=1" implicitly). Yeah, I think so, too. Ideally we should have stripped out all code providing non-Windows means (i. e., /etc/resolv.conf support) back when this code was folded into Cygwin. It just doesn't make sense, at least not by default. > I'm not sure if improvements to use _ext by the minires own code would be any > beneficial. > > Having said that, AAAA replies should be made understood by the minires-if-os > shim code > (and I can provide a patch for that, too). That would be great! Thanks, Corinna
