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

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR lib/48926; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: lib-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
        netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, buhrow%nfbcal.org@localhost
Subject: 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
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 20:02:01 +0200

 On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 05:00:00PM +0000, Brian Buhrow wrote:
 >  2.  The second patch eats the last character of the current line and avoids
 >  having to save and restore any values.  By the time we get to the place
 >  where my patch takes effect in the code, we know we're dealing with a line
 >  that's not just a comment line, and the code assumes the line either ends
 >  with a "#" or a newline character, and if it doesn't end with either of
 >  those two things, the line is ignored.
 
 The test for blankish would fix that as well. You don't need to loop,
 just check if the last character can be replaced and otherwise keep it.
 That just makes it work for files without trailing newline.
 
 Joerg