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From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: follow-up: discrepancy with POSIX
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:27:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46F15BEE.2050701@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46F156A7.5000304@redhat.com>

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Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> 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.

Searching the web shows up this:

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man2/connect.2.html


  Datagram sockets may dissolve the association by connecting to an
  invalid address, such as a null address or an address with the address
  family set to AF_UNSPEC (the error EAFNOSUPPORT will be harmlessly
  returned).


I.e., at least Apple implements both variants.

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➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-19 17:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-19 15:21 follow-up: discrepancy with POSIX Ulrich Drepper
2007-09-19 15:47 ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-19 16:49   ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-09-19 16:52     ` David Miller
2007-09-19 17:04       ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-09-19 17:27         ` Ulrich Drepper [this message]
2007-09-19 17:26     ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-19 17:46       ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-09-19 17:57         ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-19 18:02           ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-09-19 18:30             ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-19 18:38               ` Rick Jones
2007-09-19 19:40                 ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-19 20:33                 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-09-19 18:06         ` Alan Cox
2007-09-19 16:15 ` David Miller
2007-09-19 16:39   ` Alan Cox

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