Re: InetAddr.getLocalHost() [glibc?] bug workaround

[Andreas Jaeger]

>>>>> Roland McGrath writes:

 > I have a wild suspicion that this is the same problem gated had on redhat 5.0,
 > and is because there is someplace some code that looks like:

 >      #ifdef IFF_LOOPBACK
 >              if (flags & IFF_LOOPBACK)
 >              ... /* skip this interface */
 >      #endif

 > and the headers needed to get that bit have changed somehow.  I don't
 > recall the precise details.  Worth checking though.
I do think the problem is already solved.  We got a bug report[1] (PR
libc/667) from Christopher Seawood entitled "glibc fails to return
correct hostname if host is listed in /etc/hosts".  The problem was a
bug in the user program and not in glibc.

If PR libc/667 and this bug are different, I'd like to see a real bug
report.

Andreas


Footnotes: 
[1]  The bug database is at
     http://www-gnats.gnu.org:8080/cgi-bin/wwwgnats.pl - and I know
     that you, Roland, knows that but I'm not sure about the other
     recipients of this message.  You can read my conversion with
     Christoper in the bug database.
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