Subject: Re: [PATCH] ares_parse_txt_reply: add `record_start` field

Re: [PATCH] ares_parse_txt_reply: add `record_start` field

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 22:50:30 +0200 (CEST)

On Thu, 22 May 2014, Fedor Indutny wrote:

> Unfortunately, there is no certain description of how TXT records should be
> used after parsing. Clearly some people may want to get each chunk of each
> record separately and use them as they want to. Concatenation will
> definitely make c-ares unusable for them.

An option is to introduce another function that can return this info and yet
we maintain API and ABI backwards compatibility.

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  / daniel.haxx.se
Received on 2014-05-26