gethostby* users
Simo Sorce
ssorce at redhat.com
Fri Oct 12 12:22:41 UTC 2007
On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 23:35 -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
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> Even though the situation improved, there are still some programs left
> which use the gethostby* functions. These really have to be converted
> to use getaddrinfo. Here is the break-down per package of an incomplete
> installation giving the number of programs/libraries with problems in
> that package. I.e., there are like more packages on an install-all
> machine. The full list with the program/library names is at
>
> http://people.redhat.com/drepper/gethostby-users
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> Samba is responsible for almost one quarter of the problems.
Ulrich, the situation should be substantially better in the F-9
timeframe.
Samba 3.2.0 will show full support for IPv6 (and therefore we are
converting most calls to getaddrinfo) where possible.
Simo.
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