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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-patches@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [PATCH 2/5] Cygwin: resolver: Process options forward (not backwards)
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2022 16:22:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YebbJg3DZArOdlP2@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DM8PR09MB70957B6BFEAE91059D1371A6A5589@DM8PR09MB7095.namprd09.prod.outlook.com>

On Jan 18 13:58, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] via Cygwin-patches wrote:
> > I pushed patches 1 and 3 to 5.  I fixed the consitency typo
> > throughout.
> 
> Thanks!  (and oops :-)
> 
> > Right now, the debug flag gets set in several places throughout the
> > code.  Given you set the debug flag above, doesn't that mean several
> > code snippets setting the debug flag later in the code can go away?
> 
> No, they can't.  The flag can be propagated from "res_init()" from the user
> land.  When /etc/resolv.conf gets loaded, its "options" can also specify the
> debug setting (so it should become active since then), but formerly the code was
> using only the init-provided value in "get_resolv()" yet the debug setting from
> "options" (parsed by "get_options()") only affected the options themselves,
> but not the calling code in "get_resolv()", which kept on using the initial value.
> That made the remainder of the file parse to continue "silent" unless "res_init()"
> was previously called with RES_DEBUG.
> 
> So that was, again, inconsistent! (see, I can spell it this time around :-)
> 
> Post-"get_options()" assignment is not an additional assignment, it's a refresh
> of a possibly changed value (for a local "debug" variable).  I think the patch is correct,
> and it works, for what I am concerned, -- I checked that and was using it.

Thanks for the description.  Would you mind to recreate your patch with
a matching commit message text explaining the debug flag setting?


Thanks,
Corinna

  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-18 15:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-17 18:03 Anton Lavrentiev
2022-01-17 18:03 ` [PATCH 1/5] Cygwin: resolver: Debug to output both IP and port # in native b.o Anton Lavrentiev
2022-01-17 18:03 ` [PATCH 2/5] Cygwin: resolver: Process options forward (not backwards) Anton Lavrentiev
2022-01-18 10:32   ` Corinna Vinschen
2022-01-18 13:58     ` [EXTERNAL] " Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
2022-01-18 15:22       ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2022-01-17 18:03 ` [PATCH 3/5] Cygwin: resolver: Format spec consitency for Windows errors Anton Lavrentiev
2022-01-17 18:03 ` [PATCH 4/5] Cygwin: resolver: A little more consitency in debug messages Anton Lavrentiev
2022-01-17 18:03 ` [PATCH 5/5] Cygwin: resolver: Added processing of AAAA records Anton Lavrentiev

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