Re: Bogus getaddrinfo(3) on Darwin 9.2.2

[Paolo Bonzini]

> int
> main (int argc, char *argv[])
> {
>    int err;
>    struct addrinfo *res, hints;
>
>    memset (&hints, 0, sizeof (hints));
>    err = getaddrinfo (NULL, "does-not-exist",&hints,&res);
>    printf ("err = %i `%s'\n", err, gai_strerror (err));
>
>    return err != 0 ? EXIT_SUCCESS : EXIT_FAILURE;
> }
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Here, I’d expect either ‘EAI_NONAME’ or ‘EAI_SERVICE’ (glibc 2.11
> returns the latter on GNU/Linux).  On ‘i386-apple-darwin9.2.2’ it
> succeeds:
>
>    err = 0 `Unknown error'
>
> My guess is that it’s a bug.  What do you think?
>
> If it is indeed a bug, should we try to work around it in Gnulib?
> Any idea how this could be done?

Out of curiosity, what does getservbyname("does-not-exist", NULL) return?

Paolo