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Alpine has at least the following deficiencies: DNS TCP resolution doesn't work (https://christoph.luppri.ch/fixing-dns-resolution-for-ruby-on-alpine-linux htt
by throw16180339 3y ago
Alpine has at least the following deficiencies:
DNS TCP resolution doesn't work (https://christoph.luppri.ch/fixing-dns-resolution-for-ruby-on-alpine-linux https://christoph.luppri.ch/fixing-dns-resolution-for-ruby-o...). It's a feature that it doesn't retry truncated lookups or obey the relevant RFCs (https://twitter.com/RichFelker/status/994629795551031296 https://twitter.com/RichFelker/status/994629795551031296).
Alpine has a 128k stack size (https://ariadne.space/2021/06/25/understanding-thread-stack-sizes-and-how-alpine-is-different/ https://ariadne.space/2021/06/25/understanding-thread-stack-...), while most other OSes have at least a 512k stack.
- rollcat 3y agoJust to be clear, I'm not blindly defending musl/Alpine, rather noting the detrimental effects of monoculture. Quite often fixing a build or a package on another system or architecture is a matter of a 3-5 line diff, and I've contributed quite a few over the years. It usually boils down to an incorrect assumption by the author/maintainer, stuff like "#ifdef __linux__" (when what you actually mean is: "any UNIX-like system with X11"), or hardcoding CC=gcc (where CC=cc just works).
- nicce 3y agoDNS TCP resolution has been fixed this year https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/16/alpine_linux_318/ https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/16/alpine_linux_318/
- throw16180339 3y agoThanks for letting me know!