From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: follow-up: discrepancy with POSIX Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:15:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20070919.091510.00787167.davem@davemloft.net> References: <46F13E8B.4050309@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: drepper@redhat.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:39165 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754930AbXISQPZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:15:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: <46F13E8B.4050309@redhat.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Ulrich Drepper 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. Someone needs to cull through Steven's Volume 2 to verify this, I'm too busy at the moment to do so myself.