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| author | Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu> | 2004-10-06 07:25:38 +0000 |
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| committer | Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu> | 2004-10-06 07:25:38 +0000 |
| commit | f975d8c0b54f10c07eb8b992a289b2ea5b5492c6 (patch) | |
| tree | 4e5986fb0c8284ce935ec219bcc24933de509128 | |
| parent | bd5bfa989324c93bc6a434f8546f68e92f62e37d (diff) | |
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Give some more details on the hang in RH 9.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=12214
| -rw-r--r-- | epan/addr_resolv.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/epan/addr_resolv.c b/epan/addr_resolv.c index ca66febf97..21e1eddd85 100644 --- a/epan/addr_resolv.c +++ b/epan/addr_resolv.c @@ -45,7 +45,9 @@ * * In at least some Linux distributions (e.g., RedHat Linux 9), if ADNS * is used, we appear to hang in host_name_lookup6() in a gethostbyaddr() - * call. + * call (and possibly in other gethostbyaddr() calls), because there's + * a mutex lock held in gethostbyaddr() and it doesn't get released + * if we longjmp out of it. * * There's no guarantee that longjmp()ing out of name resolution calls * will work on *any* platform; OpenBSD got rid of the alarm/longjmp |