Re: follow-up: discrepancy with POSIX

Ulrich Drepper
2007-09-19T20:26:46Z

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

David Miller wrote:
> It just occured to me that AF_UNSPEC might be used simply
> because "all zeros" might be a valid real bindable address
> for some address family. And using AF_UNSPEC avoids that
> problem entirely.

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.

I guess I'll just go ahead and file a problem report with the spec.
Maybe the Unix vendors will test their implementations in provide feedback.

- --
➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFG8Vam2ijCOnn/RHQRAlw2AJwPCkD/GdX5YWCjsidhNXkGT71SiQCeLUDX
XimSWS2NMI9T8QxnnV3FDQ4=
=8XbG
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----