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Re: hostip alias bug?

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 11:41:14 +0200 (CEST)

On Mon, 19 May 2003, Gisle Vanem wrote:

> I can't be 100% sure, but isn't the host-alias handling in lib/hostip.c a
> bit unsafe? I tried consulting the HP/UX man-pages, but it doesn't say what
> 'h_aliases' should be if there are no aliases (NULL or an array of NULLs).

Thanks for this, I can't see any reason why we shouldn't use this more
defensive approach. I'm committing this now...

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Received on 2003-05-20