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Re: Apple's getaddrinfo error patch

From: Yang Tse <yangsita_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2011 02:16:45 +0100

2011/11/4 Daniel Stenberg wrote:

> During some other discussons on IRC I fell over this patch at apple.com:
>
> http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/curl/curl-68/patches/GAI-9112664.diff
>
> It seems to properly fix a case where we extract the error code using the
> wrong approach.

We already have a better and more portable fix for that in git since
2011-April-27 thanks to Jeff Pohlmeyer, Guenter Knauf and you ;-)
Commits c33aee1667 and 5b7e1f9efe.

As soon as they upgrade to whatever libcurl version is that includes
those commits, most probably they'll simply drop that patch.

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