X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SARE_MSGID_LONG40,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20090806131241.GC15940@calimero.vinschen.de> References: <20090806131241.GC15940@calimero.vinschen.de> Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 09:22:51 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: 1.7.0: getnameinfo bug From: "Mark J. Reed" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug =C2=A06 09:01, Mark J. Reed wrote: >> According to the RFC (2553), the specific behavior here is not defined: >=C2=A0Microsoft's getnameinfo man page conveniently notes that this is the= desired > behaviour according to section 6.2 of RFC 3493. Whups! I was looking at an obsolete RFC. My mistake. Sure enough, 3493 s= ays If the service's name cannot be located, the numeric form of the service address (for example, its port number) shall be returned instead of its name. I'll go back to lurking now. --=20 Mark J. Reed -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple