Re: monit&dietlibc

[Christian Hopp]

On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Christian Hopp wrote:

> Still todo... (might be useful for other "normal" platforms)...
>
> 1) replacement of gethostbyname against gethostbyname_r because...
>    "warning: gethostbyname() leaks memory.  Use gethostbyname_r instead!"

Let forget about it... it's gonna get really ugly... for Linux!  The
gethostbyname_r interface of Linux differs from all other system and
it is not posix compatible.  Just a nice cite I found in the netdb.h
of dietlibc:


; /* this glibc "invention" is so ugly, I'm going to throw up any minute
;  * now */
; extern int gethostbyname_r(const char* NAME, struct hostent* RESULT_BUF,
;                            char* BUF, size_t BUFLEN, struct hostent** RESULT,
;                            int* H_ERRNOP) __THROW;

CHopp


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