Re: Re: UUNET socket-file-location patch

OK, hterror removed.


> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > On BSDI, hstrerror is defined in netdb.h.  Do you have it anywhere?  Is
> > that a proper function call?
> 
> There is no hstrerror anywhere on HPUX.  h_errno is defined in
> <netdb.h>, but only with nonstandard compilation options:
> 
> #ifdef _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
> extern int h_errno;
> #endif
> 
> The man page for gethostbyname() points out that h_errno will be garbage
> if the hostname was not resolved via a nameserver, anyway.
> 
> On the whole, this code looks much less than portable to me.
> 
>             regards, tom lane
> 


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