Re: follow-up: discrepancy with POSIX

Alan Cox
2007-09-19T16:32:24Z

On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:15:10 -0700 (PDT)
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:

> From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
> Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:21:47 -0700
>
> > If you think the POSIX spec is wrong (and can point to other
> > implementations doing the same as Linux) let me know and I'll work on
> > getting the spec changed.
>
> The whole AF_UNSPEC thing I'm almost certain comes from BSD, which has
> behaved that way for centuries.

We got it from the 1003.4g draft socket specification if I remember
rightly. Its entirely plausible that got it from 4BSE.

Alan