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author | Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx> | 2015-10-26 18:42:22 -0400 |
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committer | Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx> | 2015-10-26 18:42:22 -0400 |
commit | 2683e267fa6c20d2e7a498a85f79a1dfc4301f23 (patch) | |
tree | 27b7c8e3e3888b65dd788e6919a30a5b2deca3d5 /src/network/gethostbyname_r.c | |
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safely handle failure to open hosts, services, resolv.conf files
previously, transient failures like fd exhaustion or other
resource-related errors were treated the same as non-existence of
these files, leading to fallbacks or false-negative results. in
particular:
- failure to open hosts resulted in fallback to dns, possibly yielding
EAI_NONAME for a hostname that should be defined locally, or an
unwanted result from dns that the hosts file was intended to
replace.
- failure to open services resulted in EAI_SERVICE.
- failure to open resolv.conf resulted in querying localhost rather
than the configured nameservers.
now, only permanent errors trigger the fallback behaviors above; all
other errors are reportable to the caller as EAI_SYSTEM.
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