Ulrich Drepper has responded to say that choice of defaults is deliberate. Therefore the behaviour in glibc won't be changing. Next task is to get the getaddrinfo manpage updated to state why there's a discrepancy between the glibc implementation and the POSIX standard.
** Also affects: glibc via http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10567 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Also affects: manpages Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: glibc (Ubuntu) Status: In Progress => Invalid -- getaddrinfo manpage doesn't match glibc implementation when hints is NULL https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/153571 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
