Re: getaddrinfo: test failure on Solaris 9

[Paul Eggert]

In March, Bruno reported a problem with the getaddrinfo test.  I
recently ran into the same problem on Solaris 8 when testing
coreutils, and I think it happens on Solaris 10 too.  I installed this
patch into gnulib to work around the problem.

2007-11-16  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>

        Port test-getaddrinfo to Solaris.
        Problem reported by Bruno Haible in
        <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2007-03/msg00171.html>.
        * tests/test-getaddrinfo.c (simple): Add a comment asking for an
        explanation of setting 'hints'.
        (SERV1, SERV2, SERV3): Don't use "http" and "https"; this doesn't
        work in Solaris 10 and earlier.

diff --git a/tests/test-getaddrinfo.c b/tests/test-getaddrinfo.c
index 4148788..0624516 100644
--- a/tests/test-getaddrinfo.c
+++ b/tests/test-getaddrinfo.c
@@ -37,10 +37,13 @@ int simple (char *host, char *service)

   printf ("Finding %s service %s...\n", host, service);

+  /* This initializes "hints" but does not use it.  Is there a reason
+     for this?  If so, please fix this comment.  */
   memset (&hints, 0, sizeof (hints));
   hints.ai_flags = AI_CANONNAME;
   hints.ai_family = AF_UNSPEC;
   hints.ai_socktype = SOCK_STREAM;
+
   res = getaddrinfo (host, service, 0, &ai0);

   printf ("res %d: %s\n", res, gai_strerror (res));
@@ -86,12 +89,15 @@ int simple (char *host, char *service)
   return 0;
 }

+/* Use numbers for http and https services, rather than names, because
+   Solaris 8 /etc/services does not define these service names by
+   default.  */
 #define HOST1 "www.gnu.org"
-#define SERV1 "http"
+#define SERV1 "80"
 #define HOST2 "www.ibm.com"
-#define SERV2 "https"
+#define SERV2 "443"
 #define HOST3 "microsoft.com"
-#define SERV3 "http"
+#define SERV3 "80"
 #define HOST4 "google.org"
 #define SERV4 "ldap"