Re: ai_flags in calls to getaddrinfo, broader call for reproducibility check

[Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I have a Windows VM, but it doesnʼt currently have any dev tools
>> installed. I think Eli is more worried about a year down the line when
>> something breaks.
>
> Do you mean the MSYS2 stuff?  I wrote up a recipe when I installed my
> VM; you can copy/paste from here.  :-)
>
> https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2020/12/24/building-the-development-version-of-emacs-on-windows-mingw-edition/
>

I know how to do it (the instructions shipped with emacs work fine),
Iʼm just lacking any motivation to touch Windows :-)

>> I suppose if we made the change conditional on some variable as Stefan
>> suggested, default enable, then people could always get back the
>> previous behaviour by disabling it. I dislike that idea because itʼs
>> more work, but perhaps itʼs necessary here.
>
> I tried your patch, and it worked fine for me (using `dns-query' as the
> test case).  I don't really see the need for a variable here, either.

You verified it sent UDP dns queries? The patch as is didnʼt enable
that.

Robert