PATCH: Typo bugs in inet_res.erl?

[Bjorn Gustavsson]

Thanks! We will consider the patch for a future R10B release.

/Bjorn

Fredrik Thulin <ft@REDACTED> writes:

> Hi
> 
> Because of problems resolving IPv6 addresses using inet:getaddrs() in 
> R10B-0 (I'll try to find the problem some more before asking the list 
> for help on this issue) I started looking at the various inet files.
> 
> I noticed three functions (gethostbyaddr/2, gethostbyname/3 and 
> getbyname/3) in inet_res.erl which might be passing the wrong argument 
> to inet:stop_timer/1.
> 
> inet:stop_timer/1 calls erlang:cancel_timer() on whatever is given as 
> it's argument, unless the argument is 'false'.
> 
> The three functions listed above all pass the Timeout instead of the 
> Timer variable to inet:stop_timer/1. Since inet:start_timer/1 does not 
> handle Timeout = false, it seems to me as if this cannot be intentional 
> but the fact that inet:stop_timer/1 actually handles input 'false' 
> makes me a bit uncertain...
> 
> /Fredrik
> 

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Björn Gustavsson, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB