Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 20:51:47 +0900 (JST) From: Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume@FreeBSD.org> To: ru@FreeBSD.org Cc: Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com, sheldonh@starjuice.net, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/net gethostbyname.3 Message-ID: <20010809.205147.104122969.ume@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20010809095906.C91485@sunbay.com> References: <01080813273100.00624@snoopy> <20010809.063904.112320798.ume@mahoroba.org> <20010809095906.C91485@sunbay.com>
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>>>>> On Thu, 9 Aug 2001 09:59:06 +0300,
>>>>> Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> said:
ru> On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 06:39:04AM +0900, Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote:
ru> > >>>>> On Wed, 8 Aug 2001 13:27:31 -0700
ru> > >>>>> Jim Pirzyk <Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com> said:
ru> >
ru> > Jim.Pirzyk> Testing it out it does solve my problems. Thanks. So how
ru> > Jim.Pirzyk> does this patch work in that getaddrinfo came from the KAME
ru> > Jim.Pirzyk> project. Do we have to wait for the vendor branch to be
ru> > Jim.Pirzyk> upgraded with a new version of KAME that has this fix or
ru> > Jim.Pirzyk> should we patch getaddrinfo ourselves?
ru> >
ru> > I wish too see all gethostbyname() will be replaced by getaddrinfo()
ru> > in the future. I believe it is worth to get rid of the obstacles to
ru> > achieve it. I'll discuss with KAME guys about how to deal with it,
ru> > then I'll commit it into FreeBSD.
ru> >
ru> How about implementing these as wrappers to get{addr,name}info(3)?
Sorry but I cannot imagin your idea. Dou you mean application may
call such wrapper function instead of getaddrinfo()? If so, it means
we create new API and it affects many applications. I think it
shouldn't.
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