Deduplicating archiver with encryption and paranoid-level tests. Swiss army knife for the serious backup and disaster recovery manager. Ransomware neutralizer. Win/Linux/Unix
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Replace gethostbyname() with getaddrinfo() if IPV6 is defined #142
gethostbyname() is deprecated by getaddrinfo(). The use of gethostbyname() triggers warnings in quality checks in Fedora distribution.
getaddrinfo() is defined in RFC 2553 and in POSIX.1-2001.
For compatibility, I guarded its use with a non-default IPV6 macro. But since getaddrinfo() is already exclusively used in SERVER code, I think it would make sense to make it default. If you indeed want to enforce IPv4, you can change AF_UNSPEC to AF_INET.
getaddrinfo() has benefits even without IPv6: It supports multi-homed servers when a single hostname has associcated multiple IP addresses.
gethostbyname() is deprecated by getaddrinfo(). The use of gethostbyname() triggers warnings in quality checks in Fedora distribution.
getaddrinfo() is defined in RFC 2553 and in POSIX.1-2001.
For compatibility, I guarded its use with a non-default IPV6 macro. But since getaddrinfo() is already exclusively used in SERVER code, I think it would make sense to make it default. If you indeed want to enforce IPv4, you can change AF_UNSPEC to AF_INET.
getaddrinfo() has benefits even without IPv6: It supports multi-homed servers when a single hostname has associcated multiple IP addresses.
https://github.com/fcorbelli/zpaqfranz/issues/141