[PATCH] getaddrinfo(): option to not sort IPv4 addresses

[Ulrich Drepper]

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Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> In Debian we have added a new option to /etc/gai.conf (disabled by
> default) to ignore this rule for IPv4 addresses. Please find the patch
> below in case you are also unhappy about this behaviour.

No freaking way!  The reason we have that sorting is to get consistency.
 I won't add such an option to disturb it.  Not to sort is completely,
utterly wrong since the order in which addresses are returned from the
service are more or less random.

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➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖
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