Re: getaddrinfo broken on AIX
>>>> "Valdis" == Valdis Kletnieks
<Valdis.Kletnieks(a)vt.edu> writes:
Valdis> On Mon, 21 Feb 2000 15:38:55 +0100, sperber(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de
(Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]) said:
>
> This patch:
>
> 2000-01-27 URA Hiroshi <ura(a)hiru.aoba.yokohama.jp>
> * config.h.in: added HAVE_GETADDRINFO and HAVE_GETNAMEINFO
> breaks networking on AIX 4.3. This shows up in the IBM APARs as
> IY04165, but there's not PTF for the problem (yet?) which makes
> patching the OS a lengthy and impractical operation.
Valdis> fixdist reports a fix available for this, at least for AIX 4.3.3.
Valdis> Alledgedly, you can just get the list of required LPP's for 4.3.2 and
Valdis> safely apply them, but that's 85 LPPs. Basically, they want you to
Valdis> upgrade to 4.3.3-02 plus another 4-5 .11 level PTFs.
Exactly. This is not practical.
Valdis> A number of the fixes are 4.3.3.11 level, which just came out
Valdis> last Friday-ish, so if you researched this early last week you
Valdis> would indeed have found "not available yet".
Sure there is a fix level, but there's no single *PTF* which cures the
problem. There's one announced in the APAR, but that doesn't seem to
exist as of two hours ago.
Anyways, it's not that declaring getaddrinfo broken incurs a loss in
functionality, so I'll just submit an s&m patch.
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