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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: socket api problem: can't bind an ipv6 socket to ::ffff:0.0.0.0
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From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:53:00 +0100

> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 02:36:35PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> ...
> > And yes we should advise people what is an appropriate way to
> > accomplish some task.  If we aren't the experts on such a topic,
> > then who the hell is?
> 
> Only if sb. is looking for advice; otherwise it's not very nice,
> especially if repeated many times.

If the purpose of the query was to suggest that Linux should behave a
certain way, it should be no surprise to anyone that if we should
disagree with that suggestion we would suggest what we consider more
desriable alternatives for the application developer.

I don't even think this is worth the time we are spending to discuss
it, it seems so straightforward.