Re: test-getaddrinfo fails on cygwin 1.7

[Eric Blake]

Eric Blake <ebb9 <at> byu.net> writes:

> So if I can pinpoint 
> the failure to a cygwin bug and get it fixed before the formal release of 
1.7, 
> then gnulib does not have to worry about working around anything.

Update: the bug was indeed in cygwin, and is now fixed - POSIX requires 
implementations to handle NULL hints, and while most of cygwin's code paths did 
this correctly, one path mistakenly dereferenced hints without the null check:
http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/winsup/cygwin/net.cc.diff?
cvsroot=src&r1=1.251&r2=1.252

That said, this patch would still be useful in gnulib.

> OK to apply this patch?
> 
> From: Eric Blake <ebb9 <at> byu.net>
> Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:16:39 -0600
> Subject: [PATCH] test-strerror: make debugging EAI_SYSTEM easier

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Eric Blake