Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Mar 2011 15:25:18 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] Define ENONAMESERVICE and ENAMEUNKNOWN to indicate name service errors |
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On Tue, 08 Mar 2011 15:09:59 +0000 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:
> Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: > > > > Define ENONAMESERVICE to indicate "Network name service unavailable". > > > This can be used to indicate, for example, that an attempt was made by > > > dns_query() to make a query, but the name server (e.g. a DNS server) it is > > > supposed to contact didn't answer or that it couldn't determine the > > > location of a suitable server. > > > > Are these in glibc and are there glibc patches submitted and accepted for > > this ? > > No. > > Are you saying that I should push them through glibc first - and then submit > them to the kernel?
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 ?
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