Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 14:12:15 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Removal of bogus gethostbyaddr_r() Message-ID: <20030618211215.GC21622@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10306181413010.16088-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com> References: <3EF09656.CF1614A5@mindspring.com> <Pine.GSO.4.10.10306181413010.16088-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com>
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--V0207lvV8h4k8FAm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 02:17:29PM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Terry Lambert wrote: >=20 > > Daniel Eischen wrote: > > > On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > Any objections? > > >=20 > > > Why is this bogus? Do we have another gethostbyaddr_r hiding > > > somewhere? > >=20 > > It lies? (_r). >=20 > If that's true, then it's a bug and eventually should > be fixed. Additionally, you can't go around removing > public interfaces without bumping library versions > (unless said interface hasn't seen a release yet). It's not a public interface since it's not prototyped, but a number of ports (>27) are finding it anyway and then presumably failing to work correctly because they think they're getting a re-entrant gethostbyaddr() but are not (alternatively, because they're guessing the wrong prototype and will fail to work due to LP64 issues). Please look into the CVS history of this change - it was not mentioned in the commit log by julian, and it looks to me like it was committed accidentally (Julian hasn't responded to 2 mails enquiring about it though). Kris --V0207lvV8h4k8FAm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+8NWvWry0BWjoQKURAh2+AJ9ZMtIL2xqYYY4JWgBwV8EmJtl3JACfUn/t /qXD5SwHI4uOzoGKyrf7A2A= =8jTt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --V0207lvV8h4k8FAm--
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