The tools like `adig` and `ahost` can take advantage of some of the
library functions within c-ares. We can't really split these library
functions into a helper library without possibly breaking users.
Technically if we could guarantee they rely on pkg-config or cmake
helpers we could make it work ... we can revisit that in the future,
maybe if we make a c-ares 2.0 where people might expect more breakage
(but I still wouldn't want to break API/ABI).
So what this does is it just exports some symbols in headers that aren't
distributed so end users aren't meant to use the symbols, but any
utilities or tests built by c-ares can. It does clutter up some of the
namespace, but all these symbols are guaranteed to be prefixed with
`ares_` so there shouldn't ever be symbol clashes due to this for end
users and its not so many symbols that it should affect any load times.
There will be **zero** API/ABI guarantees for these symbols. They can
change from release to release, this is ok since they are not public.
I'm not entirely thrilled with doing this solution, but I want to avoid
thing like hand-written parsers, such as is used in #856.
Authored-By: Brad House (@bradh352)
Automatically detect configuration changes and reload. On systems which
provide notification mechanisms, use those, otherwise fallback to
polling. When a system configuration change is detected, it
asynchronously applies the configuration in order to ensure it is a
non-blocking operation for any queries which may still be being
processed.
On Windows, however, changes aren't detected if a user manually
sets/changes the DNS servers on an interface, it doesn't appear there is
any mechanism capable of this. We are relying on
`NotifyIpInterfaceChange()` for notifications.
Fixes Issue: #613
Fix By: Brad House (@bradh352)
Multiple functions have been deprecated over the years, annotate them
with attribute deprecated.
When possible show a message about their replacements.
This is a continuation/completion of PR #706
Fix By: Cristian Rodríguez (@crrodriguez)
The previous build system allowed overwriting of CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS/CXXFLAGS on the make command line. Switch to using AM_CFLAGS/AM_CPPFLAGS/AM_CXXFLAGS when we set our own flags for building which ensures they are kept even when a user tries to override.
Fixes Bug: #694
Fix By: Brad House (@bradh352)
Completely rework the autotools build system, issues have cropped up due to the complexity and could cause issues on even semi-modern Linux systems (Ubuntu 20.04 for example).
Changes include:
Remove all curl/xc/cares m4 helper files, they go overboard on detections of functions and datatypes. Go back to more plain autoconf macros as they've come a long way over the years.
Use known systems and heuristics to determine datatypes for functions like send() and recv(), rather than the error prone detection which required thousands of permutations and might still get it wrong.
Remove unneeded configure arguments like --enable-debug or --enable-optimize, its more common for people to simply pass their own CFLAGS on the command line.
Only require CARES_STATICLIB definition on Windows static builds, its not necessary ever for other systems, even when hiding non-public symbols.
Remove some function and definition detections that were never used in c-ares
The test framework is now embedded into the toplevel configure system, there was no need to chain build the test system as it is never built externally to c-ares.
As a side-effect of the changes, a configure run completes in about 25% of the original time.
This has been tested on various Linux distributions (of varying age), FreeBSD, MacOS, Windows (via MSYS2 with Mingw), and Solaris10/11 (by @dfandrich), AIX 7.3 (by @dfandrich). It is not unlikely that this may have broken more esoteric or legacy systems, and we'll likely need to be ready to accept bug reports and patches, but it has removed over 10k lines of build system code. It is very likely any issues that crop up will add far fewer lines of code to fix such systems.
Fixes Bug: #670
Fix By: Brad House (@bradh352)
GoogleTest should be unbundled. Google changed their guidance a few years back and modern versions of google test cannot build the bundling code file.
This PR also updates to use C++14 as is required by modern GoogleTest versions.
Fixes Bug: #506
Fix By: Brad House (@bradh352)
c-ares does not have any concept of thread-safety. It has always been 100% up to the implementor to ensure they never call c-ares from more than one thread at a time. This patch adds basic thread-safety support, which can be disabled at compile time if not desired. It uses a single recursive mutex per channel, which should be extremely quick when uncontested so overhead should be minimal.
Fixes Bug: #610
Also sets the stage to implement #611
Fix By: Brad House (@bradh352)
All files have their licence and copyright information clearly
identifiable. If not in the file header, they are set separately in
.reuse/dep5.
All used license texts are provided in LICENSES/
ax_code_coverage.m4 dropped the @CODE_COVERAGE_RULES@ macro, so we need to switch to the latest recommendation from the m4 file. This requires updates to Makefile.am.
Fix By: Felix Yan (@felixonmars)
The fuzz test files were not being distributed. This doesn't appear to be
a regression, it looks like they have never been distributed.
Fixes: #379
Fix By: Brad House (@bradh352)
Originally started by Daniel Stenberg (@bagder) with #123, this patch reorganizes the c-ares source tree to have a more modern layout. It also fixes out of tree builds for autotools, and automatically builds the tests if tests are enabled. All tests are passing which tests each of the supported build systems (autotools, cmake, nmake, mingw gmake). There may be some edge cases that will have to be caught later on for things I'm not aware of.
Fix By: Brad House (@bradh352)
The rc4 function iterates over a buffer of size buffer_len who's maximum
value is INT_MAX with a counter of type short that is not guaranteed to
have maximum size INT_MAX.
In circumstances where short is narrower than int and where buffer_len
is larger than the maximum value of a short, it may be possible to loop
infinitely as counter will overflow and never be greater than or equal
to buffer_len.
The solution is to make the comparison be between types of equal width.
This commit defines counter as an int.
Fix By: Fionn Fitzmaurice (@fionn)
Brad House
Gregor Jasny
Daniel Stenberg
Felix Yan
Fionn Fitzmaurice