Re: getaddrinfo test: ignore failure on AIX

[Simon Josefsson]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

> The getaddrinfo test also fails on AIX 4 and 5:
>
> Finding www.ibm.com service https...
> res 7: Host not found
>
> 7 is EAI_NODATA, meaning "no address associated with hostname". But
> when ("www.ibm.com", "https") fails with this error whereas
> ("www.ibm.com", "http") succeeds, it's clear that the error is buggy.
>
> I apply this, since it's now a known failure:

Thanks.  It seems sad that https isn't widely supported.  I would guess
that the reason is that they aren't in /etc/services?  Or is there any
platform where https is in /etc/services and getaddrinfo fails to
support it anyway?

One idea would be a gnulib module to implement a replacement
getservbyname function that supports all the IANA registered names, or
at least also supports https.

/Simon