On 07/03/2012 05:39 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > On 2012-07-03 05:11, Baruch Siach wrote: >> Hi Eial, >> >> On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 10:57:50AM +0300, Eial Czerwacki wrote: >>> I'd like to propose a new applet, gethostbyname. >>> all this applet does is to get a host name and return the first ip >>> address. >> >> IMHO, this applet should be called 'host', just like the similarly >> named BIND >> utility. > > No, they're different things: BIND's `host' utility specifically queries > DNS--and only DNS: > it doesn't resolve names via /etc/hosts, NIS, mDNS, etc. > > gethostbyname() uses whatever resolver backends are available in libc > (i.e.: nsswitch). > > So it might be a good idea for Eial to model this new applet on glibc's > "getent" command > (both in name and behaviour). >
Joshua, I cannot find any reference to glibc's "getent" command, can you point me to such reference? _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list busybox@busybox.net http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
