From 7a0f84ec90d6a7167e0be9de80b891596fa0c262 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Laurent Bercot Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 09:20:01 +0000 Subject: Compiling bugfixes, small doc update --- doc/libresolv.html | 13 ++++++------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/libresolv.html b/doc/libresolv.html index 7a9fd31..8ae2438 100644 --- a/doc/libresolv.html +++ b/doc/libresolv.html @@ -78,13 +78,12 @@ resolution of several queries at once, and to a

It is too big for what it does.

- The libresolv-2.13.so binary file compiled for an i386 -Debian Linux system is roughly 71k bytes. The libs6dns.so.2.0 -file, for the same system, is roughly 41k bytes, while offering -more functionality. libresolv does not do any high-level answer -parsing, so the user still has to do some work after the libresolv -calls. s6-dns tries to be small and still provide the user comfortable -interfaces. + The libresolv-2.13.so binary file compiled for an x86_64 +Debian Linux system is roughly 79k bytes. The libs6dns.so.2.0 +file, for the same system, is roughly the same size, while offering +more functionality: high-level answer parsing, user-friendly +formatting, and in-depth tracing of the DNS resolution process. +What is all that code in libresolv for ?

The API is cumbersome to use.

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