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Re: CVS commit: src/include



I guess I will undo it, because as I mentioned in a separate mail it causes other problems.

christos

> On Apr 30, 2021, at 5:18 PM, Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost> wrote:
> 
>    Date:        Fri, 30 Apr 2021 12:07:49 -0400
>    From:        "Christos Zoulas" <christos%netbsd.org@localhost>
>    Message-ID:  <20210430160749.3A4DBFA95%cvs.NetBSD.org@localhost>
> 
>  | 	src/include: resolv.h
>  |
>  | Log Message:
>  | Default to check-names for safety.
> 
> Please don't do that, check-names applies at the wrong place, and
> is far too big a hammer.   Applications which actually depend upon
> names returned (all that ever matters) having (or not having) some
> particular syntax should be verifying that before using it, just like
> any other data received over the network.   What is to be valid, and
> what is a problem, varies from application to application.
> 
> kre

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