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Re:Musl 1.2.4 adds TCP DNS fallback by 0xcde4c3db on Sunday July 30, 2023 @03:16PM (#36934874)
> See also their stubborn refusal to give you an easy way to detect that the libc is Musl while compiling.

I suspect that the primary use cases for that would be applying half-baked workarounds and refusing to work with an "unsupported" libc, much like HTTP User-Agent.

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Re:Musl 1.2.4 adds TCP DNS fallback by brmgb on Sunday July 30, 2023 @04:55PM (#36935872)
Or, you know, taking into account the stupid things Musl does like not having TCP DNS fallback.

I’m only half joking. Features detection in Musl is a generally pain. I don’t blame developers for sometimes taking the path of least resistance and not trying to support it.

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