On Tue, 08 Mar 2011 15:09:59 +0000 David Howells <[email protected]> wrote:
> Alan Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Define ENONAMESERVICE to indicate "Network name service unavailable". > > > This can be used to indicate, for example, that an attempt was made by > > > dns_query() to make a query, but the name server (e.g. a DNS server) it is > > > supposed to contact didn't answer or that it couldn't determine the > > > location of a suitable server. > > > > Are these in glibc and are there glibc patches submitted and accepted for > > this ? > > No. > > Are you saying that I should push them through glibc first - and then submit > them to the kernel? I was wondering if at least there was some co-ordination going on so that functions like perror() produced sensible answers. Otherwise it's debatable if its actually an improvement for the poor end user ? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
