Re: ai_flags in calls to getaddrinfo, broader call for reproducibility check

[Robert Pluim]

"Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie> writes:

> Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>>> I'm asking because I'm still bothered by failures in those two tests,
>>> and would like to avoid that.  I think it's bad if a test fails when
>>> there's nothing wrong with Emacs; we should try to skip such tests
>>> when we know their results cannot be trusted.
>>
>> The results can be trusted. However, the assumption of the tests is
>> that DNS lookups on AAAA records will work, and return results for
>> google.com, which is not the case for you. If you prefer we can change
>> the tests to check for "no error" rather than 'returns a result' (is
>> there an ERT 'should-not-error' clause)?
>
> Yes, progn (implicit or otherwise) ;).
> [ See the penultimate paragraph in (info "(ert) The should Macro"). ]
>
> This is definitely a long shot, but any chance bug#45798 relates to
> this?

Itʼs possible. Iʼll bombard you with questions over there.

Robert