Bug#713799: libc6: getaddrinfo returns EAI_SYSTEM instead of EAI_NONAME when the network is down

Package: libc6 Version: 2.17-5 I noticed this when working on the new version of Guile (causes a test failure), and I didn't know whether or not the fix might be easy to cherry-pick: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15339 Thanks -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and

Bug#713799: libc6: getaddrinfo returns EAI_SYSTEM instead of EAI_NONAME when the network is down

On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 11:25:39AM -0500, Rob Browning wrote: I noticed this when working on the new version of Guile (causes a test failure), and I didn't know whether or not the fix might be easy to cherry-pick: Looks straightforward enough to cherrypick, I'll give it a quick review and