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Re: [PATCH] Save/restore h_errno in getaddrinfo()


Stan Shebs <stanshebs@google.com> writes:

> It turns out that subroutines of getaddrinfo() set h_errno to negative
> values, and higher-level code such as gaih_inet tests it, but there is
> nobody to reset it, so a negative value persists and then causes later
> getaddrinfo calls to report an error even though everything works
> fine.

Who is looking at h_errno when there is no error?  That must be fixed.

Andreas.

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