From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Sickel Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Apple-Mail=_875B50E8-E198-401F-81F8-6C9CF95D1678" Message-Id: <24472F85-7A42-4CDD-8CF2-5A1CEB25E109@corpus-callosum.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.3 \(1503\)) Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 13:26:53 -0500 References: <17666A31-B506-46C1-972F-2D6407C4B8DD@corpus-callosum.com> <20130329174148.GA98286@intma.in> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [9fans] APE inconsistencies Topicbox-Message-UUID: 39f78414-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --Apple-Mail=_875B50E8-E198-401F-81F8-6C9CF95D1678 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Mar 29, 2013, at 1:00 PM, Charles Forsyth = wrote: >=20 > On 29 March 2013 17:41, Kurt H Maier wrote: > Anything using gethostbyname is probably going to want herror (and = thus > hstrerror) to be there. >=20 > I see, although it seems herror/hstrerror is usually ifdef'd out, even = when gethostbyname remains! Though if I check recent FreeBSD manuals, it's all there. And given = that this is part of the BSD extensions to APE, those might be more relevant than the Linux man pages. Not that BSD tries to be POSIX compliant any more or less than GNU/Linux. There are definitely some issues in gethostbyaddr() that are being looked into at this time. But while the review is taking place, it = doesn't hurt to look at other potential areas of a mismatch. --Apple-Mail=_875B50E8-E198-401F-81F8-6C9CF95D1678 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
On Mar 29, 2013, at 1:00 PM, Charles Forsyth <charles.forsyth@gmail.com> wrote:


On 29 March 2013 17:41, Kurt H Maier <khm-9@intma.in> wrote:
Anything using gethostbyname is probably going to want herror (and thus
hstrerror) to be there.

I see, although it seems herror/hstrerror is usually ifdef'd out, even when gethostbyname remains!


Though if I check recent FreeBSD manuals, it's all there.  And given that
this is part of the BSD extensions to APE, those might be more relevant
than the Linux man pages.  Not that BSD tries to be POSIX compliant
any more or less than GNU/Linux.

There are definitely some issues in gethostbyaddr() that are being
looked into at this time.  But while the review is taking place, it doesn't
hurt to look at other potential areas of a mismatch.

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