Re: getaddrinfo() loses on RedHat 6.0

Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: > >>>>> "Ben" == Ben Wing <ben(a)666.com&gt; writes: > > Ben> please investigate and see if there's an obvious solution, e.g. different > Ben> params. if not, perhaps we should declare getaddrinfo[] broken on RH 6.0 > Ben> [perhaps it's fixed in later versions]. the way to do this is to put something > Ben> like > > Ben> #undef BROKEN_GETADDRINFO > > Ben> into config.h, and then have configure test for Red Hat 6.0 and turn the define > Ben> on. [even better, you could make a proper configure test! have configure run a > Ben> little program that calls getaddrinfo[], then waits 30 seconds or until it > Ben> dies. if it's still around 30 seconds later, kill the program and define > Ben> BROKEN_GETADDRINFO. maybe the timeout should be longer, for modem users?] > > Ben> martin, you're the configure expert; want to write this support? > > Not until we get a handle on what the problem could be. It's very > hard to believe that Red Hat 6.0 is simply broken, because *I* was > using it (and many other people besides). I had lots of problems with getaddrinfo before upgrading to RH 6.1 or 6.2 on my systems. But Emacs 21 worked fine - strange. -bp