On Sat, 2007-10-13 at 05:20 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Richi Plana <myfedora <at> richip.dhs.org> writes: > > I'm just worrying about the different platforms these software are > > expected to run on. According to gethostbyname(3), the function conforms > > to POSIX as well as 4.3BSD so certain platforms might not have support > > for getaddrinfo(). What's the proper way of addressing these? > > Preprocessor directives? > > Ideally they'd just drop support for the obsolete systems which don't have > getaddrinfo. Even winsock implements it since XP. And of course all current > POSIX-compliant systems have it as it's part of POSIX.1-2001. Sorry but this is not the Linux kernel, many packages don't want to drop support for older systems, and given the differences in behavior between getaddrinfo and gethostby* it is not really advisable in all situations to replace these functions blindly, upstream approval is certainly important. Simo. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
