Re: follow-up: discrepancy with POSIX

David Miller
2007-09-19T16:53:19Z

From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:49:09 -0700

> But the spec calls for a "null address" to be used and that's in my
> understanding something different from using AF_UNSPEC.

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.