Re: [Boost-users] [Boost.Asio] Segmentation fault when ::getaddrinfo() returns EAI_SYSTEM without system error code set (errno = 0) - is this a bug?

On Mon, 9 Aug 2021 at 16:42, Nils Frielinghaus via Boost-users wrote:

But one could also argue that returning EAI_SYSTEM indicates that something went wrong and that the output parameters are not to be accessed.

Sure, but... what would you do instead? You could try to report some kind of error. But without evidence of this being a very common issue I would not bother, at most I would put an assertion in there... crashing anyway. By ASIO handling this, returning a real error, it would be passing the problem the the users of ASIO which now need to handle it. IMHO the issue in that C library (NSS plugin?) simply needs to be fixed.