Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 15:18:15 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> To: Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume@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: <20010809151815.A36094@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <20010809.205147.104122969.ume@FreeBSD.org>; from ume@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 08:51:47PM %2B0900 References: <01080813273100.00624@snoopy> <20010809.063904.112320798.ume@mahoroba.org> <20010809095906.C91485@sunbay.com> <20010809.205147.104122969.ume@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 08:51:47PM +0900, Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote:
> >>>>> 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.
>
Nope, I mean what if we implement gethostby*() using get*info(),
internally?
Cheers,
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