From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dave@treblig.org>
To: alx@kernel.org, linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] man/man5/gai.conf: Document glibc label additions
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2026 17:39:37 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aVv3WTIdZUuVFKKC@gallifrey> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260105173904.219815-1-dg@treblig.org>
* dg@treblig.org (dg@treblig.org) wrote:
> From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dave@treblig.org>
>
> Glibc includes some extra entries in its default label table
> as listed in the gai.conf it distributes:
> https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=posix/gai.conf
>
> Update the EXAMPLES to include the spec default and the version glibc
> actually uses.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dave@treblig.org>
> ---
> v2
> Semantic newlines added.
Erp no, they escaped, try again....
>
> man/man5/gai.conf.5 | 14 ++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/man/man5/gai.conf.5 b/man/man5/gai.conf.5
> index ef330995d..0d3c86842 100644
> --- a/man/man5/gai.conf.5
> +++ b/man/man5/gai.conf.5
> @@ -87,6 +87,20 @@ .SH EXAMPLES
> precedence ::/96 20
> precedence ::ffff:0:0/96 10
> .EE
> +.P
> +Glibc includes some extra rules in the label table for site-local addresses,
> +ULA, and Teredo tunnels. Its default label table is:
> +.in +4n
> +.EX
> +label ::1/128 0
> +label ::/0 1
> +label 2002::/16 2
> +label ::/96 3
> +label ::ffff:0:0/96 4
> +label fec0::/10 5
> +label fc00::/7 6
> +label 2001:0::/32 7
> +.EE
> .in
> .\" .SH AUTHOR
> .\" Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
> --
> 2.52.0
>
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