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Re: gai_cancel()

From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
To: Rical Jasan <ricaljasan at pacific dot net>
Cc: Phil Blundell <pb at pbcl dot net>, <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 15:04:09 +0000
Subject: Re: gai_cancel()
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References: <1497627984.6717.32.camel@pbcl.net> <dbe7052e-5e6f-fe89-8528-24583de63d5f@pacific.net>

On Sat, 17 Jun 2017, Rical Jasan wrote:

> On 06/16/2017 08:46 AM, Phil Blundell wrote:
> > getaddrinfo_a() doesn't appear to be part of any
> > standard, and it also isn't documented in the glibc manual
> 
> sockets.texi is pretty out-of-date (to be nice).  It's hard to try and
> write networking code using the glibc manual because so much of what you
> see in use isn't in there anywhere.  I started working on getaddrinfo,
> sockaddr_storage, etc., a while back, and have a few patches laying
> around somewhere I need to dust off, but anything substantial with the
> chapter is likely in the 2.27-2.28 timeline for me, unless someone else
> gets to it first.

Note the undocumentedness of getaddrinfo / getnameinfo is bug 17202 (I'm 
sure there's a lot more undocumented than there are open bugs for, 
however).

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com

References:
- gai_cancel()
  - From: Phil Blundell
- Re: gai_cancel()
  - From: Rical Jasan

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