Re: follow-up: discrepancy with POSIX

Ulrich Drepper
2007-09-19T18:02:32Z

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Andi Kleen wrote:
> Spec doesn't match traditional behaviour then.

Well, determining whether that's the case is part of this exercise.

> IPv4 0.0.0.0 is
> traditionally an synonym for old style all broadcast (255.255.255.255)
> on UDP/RAW and it's certainly possible to connect() to that.

Where do you get this from? And where is this implemented? I don't
doubt it but I have to convince people to change the standard and
possibly introduce incompatibility.

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