Rework getaddrinfo(3) to return different error values for unresolvable
names (same as before, EAI_NONAME) and those without a requested addr
(EAI_ADDRFAMILY) when using DNS. This is implemented via an added
error in the nsswitch layer, NS_ADDRFAMILY, which is used only by
getaddrinfo(). The error is passed through nsdispatch(3), but that
routine has no changes to handle this error. The error originates in
the getaddrinfo DNS layer called via nsdispatch(), and is processed
by the search layer that calls nsdispatch().
While here, add a little style to returns near those that were
modified.
Reviewed in https://reviews.freebsd.org/D37139 with related changes.
Reviewed by: bz
MFC after: 1 month
Mainly focus on files that use BSD 2-Clause license, however the tool I
was using mis-identified many licenses so this was mostly a manual - error
prone - task.
The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.
when particular function can't be found in nsswitch-module. For
example, getgrouplist(3) will use module-supplied 'getgroupmembership'
function (which can work in an optimal way for such source as LDAP) and
will fall back to the stanard iterate-through-all-groups implementation
otherwise.
PR: ports/114655
Submitted by: Michael Hanselmann <freebsd AT hansmi DOT ch>
Reviewed by: brooks (mentor)
may be built into libc (`static NSS modules') or dynamically loaded
via dlopen (`dynamic NSS modules'). Modules are loaded/initialized
at configuration time (i.e. when nsdispatch is called and nsswitch.conf
is read or re-read).
= Make the nsdispatch(3) core thread-safe.
= New status code for nsdispatch(3) `NS_RETURN', currently used to
signal ERANGE-type issues.
= syslog(3) problems, don't warn/err/abort.
= Try harder to avoid namespace pollution.
= Implement some shims to assist in porting NSS modules written for
the GNU C Library nsswitch interface.
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
# This appears to not break X11, but I'm having problems compiling the
# glide part of the server with or without this patch, so I can't tell
# for sure.
configure FreeBSD so that various databases such as passwd and group can be
looked up using flat files, NIS, or Hesiod.
= Hesiod has been added to libc (see hesiod(3)).
= A library routine for parsing nsswitch.conf and invoking callback
functions as specified has been added to libc (see nsdispatch(3)).
= The following C library functions have been modified to use nsdispatch:
. getgrent, getgrnam, getgrgid
. getpwent, getpwnam, getpwuid
. getusershell
. getaddrinfo
. gethostbyname, gethostbyname2, gethostbyaddr
. getnetbyname, getnetbyaddr
. getipnodebyname, getipnodebyaddr, getnodebyname, getnodebyaddr
= host.conf has been removed from src/etc. rc.network has been modified
to warn that host.conf is no longer used at boot time. In addition, if
there is a host.conf but no nsswitch.conf, the latter is created at boot
time from the former.
Obtained from: NetBSD
