Re: [HACKERS] Re: UUNET socket-file-location patch

[Tom Lane]

Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On BSDI, hstrerror is defined in netdb.h.  Do you have it anywhere?  Is
> that a proper function call?

There is no hstrerror anywhere on HPUX.  h_errno is defined in
<netdb.h>, but only with nonstandard compilation options:

#ifdef _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
extern int h_errno;
#endif

The man page for gethostbyname() points out that h_errno will be garbage
if the hostname was not resolved via a nameserver, anyway.

On the whole, this code looks much less than portable to me.

                        regards, tom lane