Re: getaddrinfo() loses on RedHat 6.0

>>>>> "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).