On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 02:06:49AM +0300, Lucian Adrian Grijincu wrote: > <snip from=man getaddrinfo(3)> > If hints.ai_flags contains the > AI_NUMERICHOST flag then the node parameter must be a numerical > network > address. The AI_NUMERICHOST flag suppresses any potentially > lengthy > network host address lookups. > </snip> > > how does this work with string names like "localhost" too?
Eh, it doesn't, that's why it's got the word numeric in there ;-) But if people want to translate literal IP addresses into addrinfo structures regardless of connectivity - that's how to do it. > As I understand the APR interface that's misbehaving now needs to > support hostnames besides IPs represented as strings. Very much so, that's the majority use-case by a long long way, it works fine btw! > Suppose that a this string is read from the commandline as a > parameter. The app coder cannot pass this new APR_NUMERIC_ADDRESS > flag, because he doesn't know if the string he received is a name for > a link-local IP. Firstly: I'm not sure what your point here is :-) That wouldn't be the use-case. Secondly: It's incredibly trivial to tell if a string is a literal IP address or not, they are programatically distinguishable from hostnames with extreme ease. But it'd be a bad idea to do that, still not the use-case! -- Colm MacCárthaigh Public Key: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
