[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
getaddrinfo() inquiry
|
From: |
Jonas Oberg |
|
Subject: |
getaddrinfo() inquiry |
|
Date: |
Fri, 08 Feb 2002 07:52:00 +0100 |
|
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/20.7 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) |
I noticed earlier today that getaddrinfo() in glibc-2.2.4 does not
handle the more esoteric dotquad-addresses (for example, `ping
0xc7.0350.19364'). This is in accordance with the man-page which
states that only decimal dotquad-addresses are allowed, so it's not a
bug.
Several programs have begun relying on getaddrinfo() instead of the
inet_aton() and gethostbyname() combination which makes them fail for
such addresses.
The question is really; is there any specification for how
getaddrinfo() should behave? And if I made a patch to enable it to
handle all kinds of dotquad-addresses, would it have any chance of
being included in the glibc development tree?
- getaddrinfo() inquiry,
Jonas Oberg <=