[Nagiosplug-devel] Antwort: RFC: gethostbyname instead of getaddrinfo

[Holger Weiss]

* Sascha.Runschke at gfkl.com [2009-02-10 16:25]:
> getaddrinfo() should only be used in situations where it's really needed.

I disagree.  getaddrinfo allows for opening sockets in a protocol
independent manner and therefore makes implementing IPv6 support much
cleaner and simpler.  gethostbyname has been deprecated by the
introduction of getaddrinfo, see the APPLICATION USAGE and FUTURE
DIRECTIONS sections of the gethostbyname specification in POSIX.1-2001.¹
POSIX.1-2008 actually removed getaddrinfo.²

So, I'd rather suggest the opposite; that is, we should replace any
gethostbyname calls with calls to getaddrinfo.

Holger

¹ http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/gethostbyname.html
² http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/xrat/V4_xsh_chap01.html#tag_22_01_01_05