Re: Manual update for get.*_r functions

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>]

>>>>> Ulrich Drepper writes:

Uli> Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de> writes:
>> I'm appending a patch for the manual to document the POSIX behaviour
>> to summarize my understanding of the issue.

Uli> The test for a NULL pointer should not be necessary.  Where did you
Uli> find this necessary?  It is then a bug in the NSS backend.

I've checked POSIX and my understanding of POSIX is that the check for 
NULL is necessary.

Check the appended test program with the following line in
nsswitch.conf:
hosts:      files dns

Andreas

#include <netdb.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <alloca.h>

int
main (void)
{
  struct hostent hostbuf, *hp;
  size_t hstbuflen;
  char *tmphstbuf;
  int res;
  int herr;
  
  hstbuflen = 1024;
  tmphstbuf = alloca (hstbuflen);

  res = gethostbyname_r ("unknownhost", &hostbuf, tmphstbuf, hstbuflen, &hp, &herr);

  printf ("gethostbyname_r returned: %d\n", res);
  printf ("herr: %d\n", herr);
  printf ("hp is %s\n", hp == NULL ? "null" : "set");

  return res;
}
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