Re: follow-up: discrepancy with POSIX

Andi Kleen
2007-09-19T15:48:05Z

Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes:

>
> fd = socket(AT_INET6, ...)
>
> connect(fd, ...some IPv6 address...)
>
> struct sockaddr_in6 sin6 = { .sin6_family = AF_INET6 };
> connect(fd, &sin6, sizeof (sin6));

The standard way to undo connect is to use AF_UNSPEC. Code to handle
that for dgram sockets is there. It's the same code for v4 and v6.

-Andi