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  1. Bug #153571
  2. Comment #12

Comment 12 for bug 153571

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In , Mtk-manpages-googlemail (mtk-manpages-googlemail) wrote :

Subject: Re: getaddrinfo() hints==NULL (ai_flags) deviates
 from POSIX.1

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 2:14 PM, drepper at redhat dot
com<email address hidden> wrote:
>
> ------- Additional Comments From drepper at redhat dot com  2009-08-31 12:14 -------
> (In reply to comment #0)
>> Should it be fixed?
>
> No.  Like several other things in the getaddrinfo spec this is non-optimal at
> best.  The defaults used in glibc are much better.

Thanks. I'll update the man page to make it clear that this choice is
deliberate.