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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@gentoo.org>
Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: libcidn
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2017 13:39:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mvmpoa13e9z.fsf@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1745056.Yiv6T0xlHe@porto> (Andreas K. Huettel's message of "Thu, 05 Oct 2017 15:16:03 +0200")

On Okt 05 2017, "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@gentoo.org> wrote:

> Mostly out of curiosity, what is the usecase for the glibc-internal libidn?

It is used by the resolver for IDN.

> A quick scan on my laptop (Gentoo Linux) shows no binaries that have 
> libcidn.so in NEEDED (but many with the separate libidn.so).

It's loaded on demand, see libidn/idn-stub.c.

Andreas.

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-05 13:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-28 17:49 Remove add-ons mechanism Joseph Myers
2017-09-28 22:01 ` Zack Weinberg
2017-09-28 22:38   ` Joseph Myers
2017-09-29 11:04   ` Florian Weimer
2017-09-30  6:35 ` Florian Weimer
2017-09-30 21:42   ` Joseph Myers
2017-10-05 10:39 ` Andreas K. Huettel
2017-10-05 11:07   ` Florian Weimer
2017-10-05 12:54     ` Joseph Myers
2017-10-05 13:16       ` libcidn (was: Re: Remove add-ons mechanism) Andreas K. Huettel
2017-10-05 13:39         ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2017-10-05 13:40         ` libcidn Florian Weimer
2017-10-05 21:11       ` Remove add-ons mechanism Andreas K. Huettel
2017-10-05 21:30         ` Joseph Myers
2017-10-05 15:59 ` Joseph Myers

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