Re: [PATCH v4] man/man5/gai.conf: Document glibc label additions

[Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>]

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Hi Dave,

On Mon, Jan 05, 2026 at 05:44:01PM +0000, 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>

Thanks!  I've applied the patch.

> ---
> v4
>   Close the .in
>  man/man5/gai.conf.5 | 17 +++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/man/man5/gai.conf.5 b/man/man5/gai.conf.5
> index ef330995d..b602acc7c 100644
> --- a/man/man5/gai.conf.5
> +++ b/man/man5/gai.conf.5
> @@ -88,6 +88,23 @@ .SH EXAMPLES
>  precedence ::ffff:0:0/96  10
>  .EE
>  .in
> +.P
> +Glibc includes some extra rules in the label table for site-local addresses,
> +ULA,
> +and Teredo tunnels.

I changed the line breaks as

	+Glibc includes some extra rules in the label table
	+for site-local addresses, ULA, and Teredo tunnels.


Have a lovely night!
Alex

> +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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