From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: getting rid of gethostby* calls Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:05:47 -0700 Message-ID: <200710190105.l9J15lWn029340@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1192756138 29668 80.91.229.12 (19 Oct 2007 01:08:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 01:08:58 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 19 03:08:58 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IigMC-0006XD-Km for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 03:08:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IigM5-0003Uk-5a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:08:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IigM0-0003UE-W7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:08:45 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IigLy-0003S0-C2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:08:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IigLy-0003RX-3N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:08:42 -0400 Original-Received: from oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu ([128.195.1.41]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IigLw-0002g7-M5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:08:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mothra.ics.uci.edu (mothra.ics.uci.edu [128.195.6.93]) by oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l9J15lWn029340 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:05:48 -0700 (PDT) Original-Lines: 13 X-ICS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ICS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-1.44, required 5, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.44) X-ICS-MailScanner-From: dann@mothra.ics.uci.edu X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:81177 Archived-At: Ulrich Drepper is trying to get rid of all the gethostby* calls in Fedora. emacs has been given as an example of program that uses the gethostby* functions. An example on how to use getaddrinfo instead of gethostby* is here: http://people.redhat.com/drepper/userapi-ipv6.html There are just a few instances of gethostby* in the emacs tree, can someone that understands that code please take a look? Thanks