careful analysis has shown that the buffer is only ever used for
at most a single hostname, so 256 bytes are sufficient.
the huge 8KB buffer caused stack overflow when used with microsocks,
which defaults to tiny thread stacks of 8KB with musl libc.
some lamer on IRC by the name of annoner/R3M0RS3/penis was complaining
that 3.1 is a lot better than proxychains-ng, because it happens to
work with the browser he's interested in.
since this wasn't the first time this is requested, let's give this
those lamers what they want: lame code!
instead of allocating memory in the child, we now use the allocator
thread to do all the necessary allocations himself.
additionally we provide a clean API to query the ip <-> dns mapping.
these functions connect via a pipe to the allocator thread, and
exchange messages.
further cleanup is needed, but it seems to work so far.
thread-safety is not yet guaranteed.
closes#1
this is in order to get irssi, which forks for DNS lookups,
and similar programs, to work as intended.
in a previous attempt i learned that shared memory created in a
child process is not visible to the parent;
in this attempt i spin off a thread from the parent which listens
on a pipe and manages the shared memory allocation from the parent
address-space. however this doesnt work as expected:
memory allocated in the parent after the child forked is not visi-
ble to the child as well.
so what happens is: irssi starts a child process, the thread allocs
memory and hands it to the child, the child attempts to write and
segfaults. however irssi doesnt crash. since now the memory is
already allocated, doing the dns lookup again will succeed.
i.e. the dns lookup works now in irssi by luck.
all but the first dns lookups will suceed.
however this is not good enough for me to be satisfied, i commit
this only for documentation purposes.
rofl0r