On Saturday, October 18, 2014, Ingo Schwarze <[email protected]> wrote: > > this summer, Marcus MERIGHI reported that gethostent(3) was completely > destroyed during the switch to asr, i guess unintentionally >
Does someone have a legitimate use for gethostent(), even the simple version that just uses /etc/hosts? It's been removed from POSIX and I'm at loss to think of a use of it that wouldnt make further nonportable assumptions. Maybe we just fix getent(1) to return an error like it does for ethers? Philip Guenther
