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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Subject: Does the kernel have a function to parse a text IPv6 address?
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 19:32:01 +0100
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Does the kernel have a function to parse a text IPv6 address of the form
"x:y:..::z" and put it into a struct sockaddr_in6?

David