[TF] TF5.0a10 and inet6 support

[hawkeye at tcp.c. (K. Keys)]

On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 11:25:50PM +0200, Johan van Selst wrote:
> CaT wrote:
> > When it's compiled with inet6 support, gethostbyname2 completely fails
> > to resolve hostnames or ipv4 ip addies.
> 
> This is a known problem with the glibc implementation of gethostbyname2
> (actually in several versions the function is defined but does absolutely
> nothing). It would probably be better if TF used the (now common) standard
> function getaddrinfo() - but according to the source comments, Ken is
> already planning to do this :)

Yeah, it's been a couple years since I wrote that code, before the
standards settled down, and updating the code now was lower priority
than getting TF 5.0 out the door.  Thanks for the heads up on the known
problem in glibc.

-- 
Ken Keys <ha...@tc...>
TinyFugue 5.0 alpha 10: http://tf.tcp.com/~hawkeye/tf/