[Nagiosplug-devel] AF-Independent code for plugins

[Subhendu Ghosh]

On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote:

> 	As I had mentioned before I've been working on porting the
> plugins to support IPv6 as well as IPv4... In doing so I'm also making
> sure that the code is AF-independent... One advantage I've also seen of
> this is the use of the my_inet_aton() function in plugins/netutils.c
> which made a mention that Solaris does not contain the inet_aton()
> function which I can verify myself as I have access to 4 Solaris 8 Ultra
> Sparcs to build on... In my AF-indep porting I'm moving towards using
> getnameinfo() and getaddrinfo() which are both in Solaris as well as all
> *BSD and Linux implimentations I've come across so far in doing
> compatibility compiles... As I'm not actually working off a branch of
> the CVS repository on SF.net I've got this code and the code I'm working
> towards IPv6 capability mixed together and would be a bit to remove the
> two to make a diff patch...
> 
> 	However my question is would this patch be of value to others
> besides myself? If so I will get it submitted through the SF.net project
> site under the Patch section as soon as I've got it cleaned up and have
> tested it on a couple various machines (AMD K7 Debian GNU/Linux, Ultra
> Sparc Solaris 9, and either PIII FreeBSD 4.4 or OpenBSD 3.2-STABLE)...
> My code is being worked on from CVS version which I keep updated
> regularly while I work...
> 
> 	Jeremy
> 

Thanks :)

Please post patch to SF when appropriate.  It also helps keep track of 
things that have not yet been worked on..

-sg

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