Thomas Hood <[email protected]> writes: > Executive summary: The getaddrinfo() returns different values depending > on the OS and on nsswitch.conf settings, making it very difficult to use > getaddrinfo() return values to deciding how to handle an error.
As you note, I believe glibc upstream is actively working on fixing this. I've seen quite a few patches flow by around fixing the return status in various system error conditions, and it struck me as more comprehensive and better thought-out and not as ad hoc. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
