Alignment fixups for gethostbyname_r

Fri Dec 21 12:08:44 PST 2007

On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 11:57:28AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>MontaVista noticed that when their kernels were configured to trap

Since i just today stumbled across a python-frontend imposed funnyness WRT
entries in /etc/hosts that read like:

1.1.1.1 $(seq -w 1 9999 | tr "\n" " ")

(or rather 1.1.1.1 foo bar1 ... (-ULL-1))

which made everybody (nscd, python, etc) segfault in various funny ways,
i mean to point folks to alleged issues with such candidates..

>on unaligned access gethostbyname_r could mysteriously crash.  I

enjoy,