Re: Tar uses the deprecated 'gethostbyname' func

[Paul Eggert]

On 2022-12-13 06:02, Lukas Javorsky wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been working on maintaining tar in all of our operating systems
> lately and one of our automated tests noticed that the tar is still using
> the old 'gethostbyname' function.
>
> It's common for applications that use this function to switch to
> 'getaddrinfo'.
>
> Are you already working on such a task, or is it even in consideration?

Not working on it, but would welcome more up-to-date code.