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bug #63983: replace gethostbyname with getaddrinfo

Submitter:	Jens Petersen <juhp>
Submitted:	Fri 31 Mar 2023 07:56:01 AM UTC


Category:	Translator tools	Severity:	3 - Normal
Item Group:	None	Status:	Fix Released
Privacy:	Public	Assigned to:	haible
Open/Closed:	Closed

Sat 17 Jun 2023 01:51:10 PM UTC, comment #3: The fix is contained in gettext 0.22.	Bruno Haible <haible>
Sat 01 Apr 2023 03:29:18 PM UTC, comment #2: > gettext still uses gethostbyname, which is considered generally deprecated function in favor of getaddrinfo. > It would be good to replace the usage in gettext to future-proof it. Thanks for the report. Done through https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gettext.git;a=commitdiff;h=c5cdf41d436261b279c172753ac727335d44b9fd > the main runtime usage seems to be in hostname.c > and hostname is used by user-email. Correct. And user-email is used by msginit. > Perhaps a workaround could be to drop (remove) the hostname program from gettext on Linux systems, etc? It is true that on some Linux systems, gettext's 'hostname' program implements a subset of the functionality of the (Debian-maintained) 'hostname' program. The reason why it exists in gettext is for portability to systems that don't have it. msginit should work also on those systems. Do all Linux distros ship with the 'hostname' program by default? I wouldn't bet on it.	Bruno Haible <haible>
Fri 31 Mar 2023 08:43:00 AM UTC, comment #1: Well the main runtime usage seems to be in hostname.c and hostname is used by user-email. Perhaps a workaround could be to drop (remove) the hostname program from gettext on Linux systems, etc?	Jens Petersen <juhp>
Fri 31 Mar 2023 07:56:01 AM UTC, original submission: gettext still uses gethostbyname, which is considered generally deprecated function in favor of getaddrinfo. It would be good to replace the usage in gettext to future-proof it. Perhaps this has already been done in some other GNU projects.	Jens Petersen <juhp>

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Date	Changed by	Updated Field	Previous Value	Replaced by
2023-06-17	haible	Status	Fixed	Fix Released
2023-04-01	haible	Category	None	Translator tools
		Status	None	Fixed
		Assigned to	None	haible
		Open/Closed	Open	Closed

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