Re: getaddrinfo() return value chaos

[Thomas Hood <jdthood@gmail.com>]

I wrote:
> Kurt has filed a new bug report against eglibc
>
>    http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15726
>
> which draws the developers' attention to RFC3493 which specifies the
> return values of getaddrinfo(). These should be as follows.
> [...]
> Further discussion can best be carried on in the upstream Bugzilla ticket.

Arising from the discussion in that ticket an effort has begun better
to describe the desired behavior of getaddrinfo(). Initial results can
be seen here: http://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/NameResolver
-- 
Thomas Hood