[Chicken-janitors] #1162: gethostbyname() is deprecated in favour of getaddrinfo()

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#1162: gethostbyname() is deprecated in favour of getaddrinfo()
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 Reporter:  mario                              |       Owner:         
     Type:  enhancement                        |      Status:  new    
 Priority:  minor                              |   Milestone:  someday
Component:  core libraries                     |     Version:  4.9.x  
 Keywords:  gethostbyname, getaddrinfo, posix  |  
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 The [http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-users/2014-10/msg00007.html
 message by Moritz Wilhelmy] is copied below:

 {{{
 While building the OpenSuSE package for Chicken, I discovered the
 following:

 [  473s] RPMLINT report:
 [  473s] ===============
 [  482s] chicken-runtime.i586: I: binary-or-shlib-calls-gethostbyname
 /usr/lib/libchicken.so.7
 [  482s] The binary calls gethostbyname(). Please port the code to use
 getaddrinfo().
 [  482s]
 [  482s] 5 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 0 errors, 0 warnings.
 [  482s]

 (Full build log here:
 
http://build.opensuse.org/package/live_build_log/home:mwilhelmy:chicken/chicken/openSUSE_12.3/i586
  )

 Do you think it would be a good idea to port chicken to use getaddrinfo()
 instead, not that it's top priority or anything? getaddrinfo is part of
 POSIX.1-2001 so it should be present on most systems, while POSIX.1-2008
 removes gethostbyname() from the specification altogether.
 }}}

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