Thats right, getaddrinfo also supports IPv6 but my patch is only a drop-in replacement to fix threading problems. Due to a serious lack of time I have to leave this to someone else unfortunately. On 2/28/20 1:13 PM, David Woodhouse wrote:
From c8bbf52e7a46ab238da1bd59d2afb98f6b46359c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Florian Wickert <fw@ferncast.de> Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2020 10:47:19 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 1/1] replace gethostbyname with getaddrinfo
getaddrinfo is guaranteed to be thread-safe in contrast to gethostbyname. It also allows us to support IPv6, but I note your patch doesn't do
On Thu, 2020-01-30 at 12:29 +0100, Florian Wickert wrote: that. Could it?
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the publication of RFC1883, so it would only be a quarter of a century behind the times... :)
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