Re: [PATCH 2/2] Define ENONAMESERVICE and ENAMEUNKNOWN to indicate name service errors

From: David Howells
Date: Tue Mar 08 2011 - 11:37:23 EST


Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I was wondering if at least there was some co-ordination going on so that
> functions like perror() produced sensible answers. Otherwise it's
> debatable if its actually an improvement for the poor end user ?

Fair point. That's why I cc'd the messages to linux-api@, but I'm not sure who
actually reads it, besides Michael Kerrisk. I guess it's probably a good idea
to wave my suggestions on the glibc list at least.

David
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