Re: freeaddrinfo(NULL)

From: Hajimu UMEMOTO (ume_at_FreeBSD.org)
Date: 09/21/04

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    Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 02:30:54 +0900
To: Thomas Quinot <thomas@FreeBSD.ORG>

    Hi,

    >>>>> On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 14:30:16 +0200
    >>>>> Thomas Quinot <thomas@FreeBSD.ORG> said:

    thomas> Currently a call to freeaddrinfo (NULL) causes a segfault. Is there any
    thomas> reason why we should not make that a no-op? This would make freeaddrinfo
    thomas> behave in a manner consistent with free(3), and also with what happens
    thomas> on Linux.

    Because, the behavior of freeaddrinfo (NULL) is undefined in RFC 2553
    nor RFC 3493. Having such an assumption is a potentially bug and
    lose portability.

    Sincerely, 

    --
Hajimu UMEMOTO @ Internet Mutual Aid Society Yokohama, Japan
ume@mahoroba.org  ume@{,jp.}FreeBSD.org
http://www.imasy.org/~ume/
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