Date: 01 Aug 2001 14:00:59 +0200 From: Assar Westerlund <assar@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: itojun@iijlab.net, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, Bernd Walter <ticso@mail.cicely.de>, Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume@mahoroba.org> Subject: Re: how to get AF_LOCAL from getaddrinfo() Message-ID: <5lg0bct2f8.fsf@assaris.sics.se> In-Reply-To: Ian Dowse's message of "Mon, 16 Jul 2001 18:44:39 %2B0100" References: <200107161844.aa52089@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
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Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie> writes: > Another important reason to add this feature is for compatibility > with other platforms' getaddrinfo() implementations. I just tried > a random Linux box here, and it seems to have very similar behaviour > to that implemented by my patch. There is also the general idea > that the way to encourage people to use a "preferred" interface is > to make it useful in as many situations as possible :-) Note that glibc just commented out PF_LOCAL support. But before that, getaddrinfo PF_UNSPEC actually could return PF_LOCAL addresses, which I think is not obvious and kind of wrong. Having it work for ai_family == PF_LOCAL seems ok to me. /assar To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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