Re: [patch] getnameinfo.3: Fix _POSIX_C_SOURCE value for getaddrinfo()

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Hi Sebastian,

On Sun, 22 Nov 2020 at 23:53, Sebastian Kirmayer <sebastian@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 11:42:02PM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> > Hi Sebastian,
> >
> > On 11/22/20 11:37 PM, Sebastian Kirmayer wrote:
> > > The minimum value of _POSIX_C_SOURCE for getnameinfo() was mistyped as 201112L
> > > (not a real POSIX version), it should be 200112L. This is the same typo that
> > > was fixed for getaddrinfo.3 in commit 94db8ae1824ada8561c3dbbbed88a8a9175c4886
> > >
> > > According to the current documentation, this file should not compile, but
> > > it does:
> > >
> > >     #define _POSIX_C_SOURCE 200112L
> > >     #include <netdb.h>
> > >     int (*mygetnameinfo)() = getnameinfo;
> > >
> > > (If _POSIX_C_SOURCE is changed to 200111L, the program does no longer compile.)
> > >
> > > man3/getnameinfo.3:
> > >
> > > @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
> > >  .RE
> > >  .PP
> > >  .BR getnameinfo ():
> > > -    Since glibc 2.22: _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 201112L
> > > +    Since glibc 2.22: _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L
> > >      Glibc 2.21 and earlier: _POSIX_C_SOURCE
> > >  .ad b
> > >  .SH DESCRIPTION
> >
> > Thanks for taking the time to report, but I think you must be looking
> > at a rather old version of the manual pages. It looks like that typo
> > was fixed about three years ago in the Git tree!
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Michael
>
> Oops, I accidently wrote getaddrinfo() in the subject. I meant to write
> getnameinfo(), and I'm actually referencing the commit from three years
> ago fixing it for getaddrinfo().

Ahh -- sorry, I should have looked more closely at your mail then.
Fixed now. Thanks for the report!

Cheers,

Michael

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Michael Kerrisk
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