Re: incorrect return value in gethostbyname_r() ?

[Ulrich Drepper]

Greg Herlein <address@hidden> writes:

> But the docs suck.  It's stupid to discuss the internals of the
> nss library in a document that programmers are going to go to in
> order to look up how to use a funtion.

You once more completely off.  The NSS interface is a programmer's
interface since people can write their own NSS modules.  Therefore it
has to be documented there.

> But I'll persist: is there a good reason?  Where on earth would I
> read about it if there were?  Point me at books, or docs, or other
> mail lists, or whatever.  I think it's a *valid* question.

And I've given you an answer.  Can't you read?  Other interfaces with
the same problematic which *are* standardized use the interface we
use.  If the Solaris guys wouldn't have to worry about backward
compatibility they would do it the same way.

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