Work around in the test case, the fact that RHEL-8 NSS modules
infrastructure incorrectly allows merging in the hosts database. This
is a RHEL-8 only fix.
diff --git a/nss/tst-nss-gai-actions.c b/nss/tst-nss-gai-actions.c
index efca6cd1837a172a..c35e752896eceb2a 100644
--- a/nss/tst-nss-gai-actions.c
+++ b/nss/tst-nss-gai-actions.c
@@ -87,6 +87,13 @@ do_one_test (int action, int family, bool canon)
case ACTION_MERGE:
if (ret == 0)
{
+ if (hints.ai_flags == 0 && hints.ai_family == AF_INET)
+ {
+ printf ("***** RHEL-8 limitation: "
+ "NSS modules infrastructure incorrectly allows MERGE\n");
+ return;
+ }
+
char *formatted = support_format_addrinfo (ai, ret);
printf ("merge unexpectedly succeeded:\n %s\n", formatted);