commit 31cbca3d898e2a309bee335b49777ff650f3dc99 Author: David Goulet dgoulet@ev0ke.net Date: Sat Nov 9 10:58:01 2013 -0500

Fix: change non TCP socket warning to debug

A fat comment is added to explain why this is done. :)

CC: adrelanos adrelanos@riseup.net Signed-off-by: David Goulet dgoulet@ev0ke.net --- src/lib/socket.c | 11 ++++++++++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/lib/socket.c b/src/lib/socket.c index dcc0444..2a50c3e 100644 --- a/src/lib/socket.c +++ b/src/lib/socket.c @@ -43,7 +43,16 @@ LIBC_SOCKET_RET_TYPE tsocks_socket(LIBC_SOCKET_SIG) break; default: if (__domain == AF_INET || __domain == AF_INET6) { - WARN("Non TCP inet socket denied. Tor network can't handle it."); + /* + * Print this message only in debug mode. Very often, applications + * uses the libc to do DNS resolution which first tries with UDP + * and then with TCP. It's not critical for the user to know that a + * non TCP socket has been denied and since the libc has a fallback + * that works, this message most of the time, simply polutes the + * application's output which can cause issues with external + * applications parsing the output. + */ + DBG("Non TCP inet socket denied. Tor network can't handle it."); errno = EINVAL; return -1; }