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authorcjihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>2019-03-07 09:13:40 -0500
committercjihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>2019-03-10 15:50:16 -0400
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doc: document fake ENOTFOUND as a system error
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/26495 Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/26484 Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net> Reviewed-By: Ruben Bridgewater <ruben@bridgewater.de> Reviewed-By: Richard Lau <riclau@uk.ibm.com> Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/lib/internal/errors.js b/lib/internal/errors.js
index b3b745252a..a76153297e 100644
--- a/lib/internal/errors.js
+++ b/lib/internal/errors.js
@@ -432,8 +432,8 @@ function dnsException(code, syscall, hostname) {
// If `code` is of type number, it is a libuv error number, else it is a
// c-ares error code.
if (typeof code === 'number') {
- // FIXME(bnoordhuis) Remove this backwards compatibility nonsense and pass
- // the true error to the user. ENOTFOUND is not even a proper POSIX error!
+ // ENOTFOUND is not a proper POSIX error, but this error has been in place
+ // long enough that it's not practical to remove it.
if (code === lazyUv().UV_EAI_NODATA || code === lazyUv().UV_EAI_NONAME) {
code = 'ENOTFOUND'; // Fabricated error name.
} else {