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Re: Why is getaddrinfo in posix?

To: Roland McGrath <roland at frob dot com>
Subject: Re: Why is getaddrinfo in posix?
From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 16:45:17 -0700
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at cygnus dot com>,GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
References: <20010831163402.A6518@lucon.org> <20010831233643.695F8994AE@perdition.linnaean.org>

On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 07:36:43PM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 04:15:03PM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> > > "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> writes:
> > > 
> > > > Shouldn't getaddrinfo be in one of those directory for network?
> > > 
> > > Why should it matter?  This is a function invented for POSIX and so
> > > found a fitting place in this subdir.
> > 
> > I have no problem to add them in posix during the build. I'd like
> > to add them to posix only when sysdeps/unix/inet is included during
> > configure.
> 
> That seems like a good reason to use inet or resolv for all network-related
> things. 

Yes. In fact, getaddrinfo is not the only one.


H.J.

References:
- Re: Why is getaddrinfo in posix?
  - From: H . J . Lu
- Re: Why is getaddrinfo in posix?
  - From: Roland McGrath

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