FYI: NI_MAXHOST glibc problem

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, Kjartan Maraas <kmaraas at broadpark.no> said:
> to., 14.02.2008 kl. 11.45 -0800, skrev Joshua Daniel Franklin:
> > I've seen several posts related to this change:
> > 
> > http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5737
> > 
> > It breaks at least alpine and UW-IMAP, too.
> > 
> At least as I understand it this is not a bug in glibc because these two
> fields are really not part of the standard and really are GNU
> extensions. Maybe the apps were just broken a long time and need to be
> fixed...

They do not appear to be "GNU extentsions", as they are also in the man
pages (looking at getnameinfo) and include files on Tru64 5.1B (under
_OSF_SOURCE, but so are the other defines that are in SUSv3) and Solaris
9 (under __EXTENSIONS__ but again with all the other SUSv3 defined
stuff).  Neither of the pages on those OSes mentions any additional
defines as being required.

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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.