Ubuntu
manpages-posix package

  1. Bug #153571
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 153571

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Michael Kerrisk (mtk-manpages) wrote :

Note that the reporter is marking a bug against the POSIX man page which is taken straight from the standard. By definition, this page won't describe glibc specifics.

I confirm that the reporter is correct in pointing out that glibc deviates from the standard. (I don't know the reasons) The Linux man page documents the deviation:

http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man3/getaddrinfo.3.html