Re: lib/48926: gethostbyname(3) doesn't appear to work under NetBSD-5.2 and NetBSD-6.1.x when hostnames appear only in /etc/hosts

["D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 15:35:00 +0000 (UTC)
christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas) wrote:
>  |  What about checking whether p[len -1] is blankish first?

Especially since comment processing can make this situation more likely.
Consider "BlahBlahBlah#oops\n"

>  And len != 0 for the paranoid.

Or do it all in one line.

while (len && isspace(p[len - 1])) p[--len] = 0

Also trims blanks at end of line.

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