STINNER Victor <vstin...@redhat.com> added the comment: January 2019, Florian Weimer created the issue "Deprecate inet_addr, inet_aton" in glibc: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24111
inet_aton() ignores extra string "for historic reasons". More info at: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20018#c0 "For historic reasons, inet_addr and inet_aton accept trailing garbage. Some parsers rely on this (for example, libresolv when it parses “nameserver” directives in /etc/resolv.conf)." -- To clarify the complex situation: glibc getaddrinfo() has been fixed in glibc to ignore extra string, but not inet_aton(). getaddrinfo() fix: * https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20018 * https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1347549 ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue37495> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
