From: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [musl] Proposal to match behaviour of gethostbyname to glibc
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2020 10:54:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200314145410.GP11469@brightrain.aerifal.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871rpvny3b.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 09:24:08AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Wolf:
>
> > While this is admittedly edge case that most users will not run into, I
> > still think it would be nice to behave the same way as glibc does on
> > this one. And as a bonus, it will be *tiny* bit faster, since there
> > would not be any need to iterate rest of the /etc/hosts file.
>
> But something has to scan the entire file in “multi on” mode at least,
> to find all relevant addresses.
musl doesn't use/support host.conf, so "multi on" isn't an issue for
us at present.
BTW it's not clear to me how the canonical name would/should be
determined in this example if you allow multiple hits.
Rich
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-14 14:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-13 21:46 Wolf
2020-03-13 22:16 ` Rich Felker
2020-03-13 23:43 ` Wolf
2020-04-13 23:18 ` Wolf
2020-04-15 8:31 ` Natanael Copa
2020-04-15 16:03 ` Rich Felker
2020-03-14 8:24 ` Florian Weimer
2020-03-14 14:54 ` Rich Felker [this message]
2020-03-14 16:31 ` Jeffrey Walton
2020-04-17 18:42 ` Rich Felker
2020-04-17 18:46 ` Rich Felker
2020-04-26 0:15 ` Wolf
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