dev@apr is the right list :)
Martin Kraemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In apr_sockaddr_info_get(), I see this:
>
> error = getaddrinfo(hostname, numptr, &hints, &ai_list);
> if (error) {
> if (error == EAI_SYSTEM) {
> return errno;
> }
> In my opinion, the "return errno" is wrong: EAI_SYSTEM is not of
> type apr_status_t, so it should be handled just like any other EAI_
> error code. Was there a special reason to treat it differently?
Yes, see the documentation for EAI_SYSTEM.
When getaddrinfo() returns EAI_SYSTEM, the real error code is in
errno.
Compare/contrast with gethostname() cruft where you never knew for
sure whether or not errno had meaningful information.
> Cscope finds no reference to EAI_SYSTEM other than this one,
> not in apr, nor in apr-util or httpd-2.0
It is a system symbol, not an apache.org symbol.
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