[PATCH] new applet gethostbyname

[walter harms]

Am 03.07.2012 16:48, schrieb Eial Czerwacki:
> On 07/03/2012 05:39 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
> 
>> On 2012-07-03 05:11, Baruch Siach wrote:
>>> Hi Eial,
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 10:57:50AM +0300, Eial Czerwacki wrote:
>>>> I'd like to propose a new applet, gethostbyname.
>>>> all this applet does is to get a host name and return the first ip
>>>> address.
>>>
>>> IMHO, this applet should be called 'host', just like the similarly
>>> named BIND
>>> utility.
>>
>> No, they're different things: BIND's `host' utility specifically queries
>> DNS--and only DNS:
>> it doesn't resolve names via /etc/hosts, NIS, mDNS, etc.
>>
>> gethostbyname() uses whatever resolver backends are available in libc
>> (i.e.: nsswitch).
>>
>> So it might be a good idea for Eial to model this new applet on glibc's
>> "getent" command
>> (both in name and behaviour).
>>
> 
> 
> Joshua,
> 
> I cannot find any reference to glibc's "getent" command, can you point
> me to such reference?


For glibc there are actualy only getent{sp,mnt,serv,..}ent calls but there is also a getent cmd
that comes with glibc (i totally forgot about it).
/usr/bin/getent --usage
Usage: getent [-?V] [-s CONFIG] [--service=CONFIG] [--help] [--usage]
            [--version] Datenbank [Schlüssel ...]

re,
 wh