Re: [PATCH 2/2] Define ENONAMESERVICE and ENAMEUNKNOWN to indicate name service errors

On Tue, 08 Mar 2011 15:09:59 +0000
David Howells [off-list ref] wrote:

Alan Cox [off-list ref] wrote:

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Define ENONAMESERVICE to indicate "Network name service unavailable".
This can be used to indicate, for example, that an attempt was made by
dns_query() to make a query, but the name server (e.g. a DNS server) it is
supposed to contact didn't answer or that it couldn't determine the
location of a suitable server.

Are these in glibc and are there glibc patches submitted and accepted for
this ?

No.

Are you saying that I should push them through glibc first - and then submit
them to the kernel? 

I was wondering if at least there was some co-ordination going on so that
functions like perror() produced sensible answers. Otherwise it's
debatable if its actually an improvement for the poor end user ?