Bug #714
closed
gethostbyname() is obsolete and should be replaced by getaddrinfo()
Added by Jörg Riesmeier over 8 years ago.
Updated almost 8 years ago.
Description
Both on Linux and Windows the gethostbyname() function is marked as obsolete or deprecated and should, therefore, be replaced by getaddrinfo().
- Assignee set to Thorben Hasenpusch
- Target version set to 3.6.3
I'm not sure how much value there is in replacing one function with the other.
Keeping the current API and just emulating what gethostbyname() does using getaddrinfo() is somewhat cumbersome, and it doesn't really get us anything.
The chances that gethostbyname() vanishes in an OS release are, I think, very small.
The other option is to expose more-or-less the exact API of the new function as an addition to ofstd, analogous to the existing wrapper of gethostbyname().
However, since its functionality cannot be emulated by the older function, that would mandate the existence of getaddrinfo() for all DMCTK targets; I don't know if that is reasonable.
(This also applies to #715)
- Status changed from New to Closed
- Assignee changed from Thorben Hasenpusch to Marco Eichelberg
- % Done changed from 0 to 100
Closed by commit #77911e6 (public DCMTK) and #0c2f405 (private modules).
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