Re: getaddrinfo() return value chaos
Thomas Hood <jdthood@gmail.com> 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.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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