Wietse Venema:
> > Are there enough OpenBSD Postfix users to warrant real effort to
> > tackle the problem? I thought that generally OpenBSD (or perhaps
> > at least Theo) was antagonistic to Postfix for some sort of licensing
> > reasons, or perhaps for some other convenient reason.
>
> This would affect their default MTA Sendmail, too, according to
> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.bugs/6298
sendmail 8.15.1, released a few days ago, has 37 references to
_res.options.
The _res.options interface is supported on FreeBSD and with (Linux)
glibc, so it is not a rogue API as some people suggest:
Global configuration and state information that is used by the resolver
routines is kept in the structure _res. Most of the values have reason-
able defaults and can be ignored. Options stored in _res.options are
defined in <resolv.h> and are as follows. Options are stored as a simple
bit mask containing the bitwise ``or'' of the options enabled.
The resolver routines use global configuration and state information
contained in the structure _res, which is defined in <resolv.h>. The
only field that is normally manipulated by the user is _res.options.
This field can contain the bitwise "OR" of the following options:
If OpenBSD decides not to support this, then someone would have to
write a (post)fix for OpenBSD.
Wietse
