Re: Fedora Packaging: gethostbyname

[Christian Grothoff]

Dear Benson,

If you look closely, getaddrinfo is used by the code by default, with 
fallbacks (!) to gethostbyname if getaddrinfo doesn't work. I don't 
think we want to accept a patch that removes the fallbacks, as that 
wouldn't do anything on modern platforms and only hurt portability.

Happy hacking!

Christian

On 5/16/24 06:46, Benson Muite wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Would like to make GNUnet available in Fedora based on the spec file
> available at:
> https://git.gnunet.org/gnunet-rpm.git/tree/rpmbuild/SPECS/gnunet.spec
>
> One of the warnings I get from the automated review helper tool is that
> gethostbyname is used:
> https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/fed500/gnunet/fedora-rawhide-x86_64/07448019-gnunet/fedora-review/review.txt
>
> See
> src/lib/util/resolver_api.c:    host = gethostbyname2 (hostname,
> src/lib/util/resolver_api.c:      host = gethostbyname2 (hostname,
> src/lib/util/resolver_api.c:    host = gethostbyname (hostname);
> src/service/util/test_resolver_api.c:  rootserver = gethostbyname
> (rootserver_name);
>
> src/service/arm/test_gnunet_service_arm.c:    host = gethostbyname2
> (hostname, AF_INET);
> src/service/arm/test_gnunet_service_arm.c:      host = gethostbyname2
> (hostname, AF_INET6);
> src/service/arm/test_gnunet_service_arm.c:    host = gethostbyname
> (hostname);
>
> As gethostbyname has been deprecated, would a patch to use getaddrinfo
> instead be considered?
>
> Benson