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manpages-posix package

  1. Bug #153571
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 153571

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Paul Fee (pfee) wrote :

Thanks for the update.

The getaddrinfo manpage on Ubuntu 9.04 has text.

"Specifying hints as NULL is equivalent to setting ai_socktype and ai_protocol to 0; ai_family to AF_UNSPEC; and ai_flags to (AI_V4MAPPED | AI_ADDRCONFIG)."

I notice there are two getaddrinfo manpages, section 3 and 3posix. I didn't spotted that before.

The section 3 manpage correctly documents the glibc implementation. So I the manpage part of this bug is fixed (or wasn't a bug to start with).

Thanks for raising the glibc bug, it'll be interesting to see the reasoning behind the deviation from the POSIX standard.