Re: follow-up: discrepancy with POSIX

Ulrich Drepper
2007-09-19T17:27:33Z

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Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> Yes, but for IPv4/6 it's not an issue. Some implementations might
> handle all-zeros and the spec _currently_ calls for it. In this case an
> alignment would be good.

Searching the web shows up this:

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man2/connect.2.html

Datagram sockets may dissolve the association by connecting to an
invalid address, such as a null address or an address with the address
family set to AF_UNSPEC (the error EAFNOSUPPORT will be harmlessly
returned).

I.e., at least Apple implements both variants.

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