[Bug libc/4980] gethostbyname() etc break for /etc/hosts with both ::1 and 127.0.0.1 localhost entries

["tg at mirbsd dot de" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>]

------- Additional Comments From tg at mirbsd dot de  2008-07-07 20:30 -------
So is this a good representation of the GNU project's style of
development, quality control, etc? I don't know if this has good
PR effects for you.

To an outsider, this looks like:

- I bind to localhost, AF_INET6. Someone tries to contact me via
  a symbolic hostname "localhost" and fails because AF_INET is tried
  first. (What if both are bound by DIFFERENT programmes?)
- I ask GNU libc for the contents of /etc/hosts, and it lies to me
- This breaks an RFC, deliberately
- without explanation
- the author of the breakage admits "it's fixed in the current
  development version" yet claims it's no bug (nÅ?n sequitur!)

Nice style, too: break something, say "we fix it by rewriting the code
soon anyway". Why did you then break it in a released(!) version in the
first place? Does GNU libc not care about preserving compatibility at all?

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             Status|RESOLVED                    |REOPENED
         Resolution|INVALID                     |


http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4980

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