Re: rsh, getaddrinfo problems on AIX 5.1

[Niklas Edmundsson <nikke@acc.umu.se>]

On Fri, 7 May 2004, Johan Danielsson wrote:

> Niklas Edmundsson <nikke@acc.umu.se> writes:
>
> > What's this supposed to do? I haven't found anything on what should
> > happen when you call getaddrinfo with "0" as service...
>
> Same as bind with 0 as port.

Ah.

> > Has anyone else running AIX been bitten by this problem?
>
> It seems like fucking up getaddrinfo has become an olympic sport, also
> practiced by the people writing the spec itself.

The more contestants the merrier?

Anyhow, has anyone made a fix for it? I suspect the right way is to
add an additional check in cf/broken-getaddrinfo.m4, I could try to
whip up a patch if noone else is up to it.

Does anyone know if this is fixed in 5.2? If not, it's probably
bug-report time...

/Nikke
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