Hello Enji, On 3/2/19 9:18 PM, Enji Cooper (yaneurabeya) wrote: > Hello! > I’ve been working with the libevent team trying to reconcile > `_GNU_SOURCE` pollution [1] in their library, and (as was pointed out > to me in a pull request [2], [3]) some errors returned by > `getaddrinfo(3)` in the Linux manpage lead the end-user to think that > they are available in non-`GNU_SOURCE` cases, i.e., more POSIX > compliant modes, when in reality they’re not, leading to some really > potentially confusing error handling [4]. > While I suspect that this doesn’t affect the behavior of glibc, it > most definitely affects the expectations for callers, which the man > page documents. > > Please advise how you’d like to proceed. I will submit patches via > `git format-patch` once I understand the general direction I need to > implement the fix. I'm happy to take patches to fix this. Just write a patch :-). Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
