tags 533950 patch
thanks
Hi,
Here's a patch that fixes getaddrinfo() (derived from Aurélien's patch at
http://www.eglibc.org/archives/patches/msg00738.html). Confirmed to work in
Ubuntu karmic, and uploaded in eglibc 2.10.1-0ubuntu6.
Cheers,
--
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diff -Nru eglibc-2.10.1/debian/changelog eglibc-2.10.1/debian/changelog
--- eglibc-2.10.1/debian/changelog 2009-08-11 20:02:06.000000000 +0000
+++ eglibc-2.10.1/debian/changelog 2009-08-11 20:02:18.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+eglibc (2.10.1-0ubuntu6) karmic; urgency=low
+
+ * patches/all/submitted-missing-etc-hosts.diff: a missing /etc/hosts should
+ be treated as a simple "not found", not as an internal error.
+ LP: #408901.
+
+ -- Steve Langasek <steve.langa...@ubuntu.com> Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:58:18 +0000
+
eglibc (2.10.1-0ubuntu5) karmic; urgency=low
* Expected testsuite results on powerpc64: Mark test-fenv.out as
diff -Nru eglibc-2.10.1/debian/patches/all/submitted-missing-etc-hosts.diff eglibc-2.10.1/debian/patches/all/submitted-missing-etc-hosts.diff
--- eglibc-2.10.1/debian/patches/all/submitted-missing-etc-hosts.diff 1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
+++ eglibc-2.10.1/debian/patches/all/submitted-missing-etc-hosts.diff 2009-08-11 20:02:18.000000000 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+When /etc/hosts is missing, return NO_DATA instead of an internal error;
+otherwise getaddrinfo() fails instead of falling back to the next backend
+(DNS).
+
+Index: eglibc-2.10.1/nss/nss_files/files-hosts.c
+===================================================================
+--- eglibc-2.10.1.orig/nss/nss_files/files-hosts.c
++++ eglibc-2.10.1/nss/nss_files/files-hosts.c
+@@ -423,6 +423,11 @@
+ if (! keep_stream)
+ internal_endent ();
+ }
++ else
++ {
++ *errnop = errno;
++ *herrnop = NO_DATA;
++ }
+
+ __libc_lock_unlock (lock);
+
diff -Nru eglibc-2.10.1/debian/patches/series eglibc-2.10.1/debian/patches/series
--- eglibc-2.10.1/debian/patches/series 2009-08-11 20:02:06.000000000 +0000
+++ eglibc-2.10.1/debian/patches/series 2009-08-11 20:02:18.000000000 +0000
@@ -144,3 +144,4 @@
ubuntu/ia64-include.diff
ubuntu/machine-sparcv2.diff
ubuntu/retain-fatal-msg.diff
+all/submitted-missing-etc-hosts.diff
