Thomas Hood <jdth...@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. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87mwpynis4....@windlord.stanford.edu
