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From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: follow-up: discrepancy with POSIX
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:46:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46F1608E.7060908@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070919172653.GB18045@one.firstfloor.org>

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Andi Kleen wrote:
>> But the spec calls for a "null address" to be used and that's in my
>> understanding something different from using AF_UNSPEC.
> 
> memset(&sockaddr, 0, sizeof(sockaddr)) should give you AF_UNSPEC

But the spec calls for <quote>null address for the protocol</quote>.

That means the family for the null address is the same as the family of
the socket.

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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 17:47 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
2007-09-19 17:26     ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-19 17:46       ` Ulrich Drepper [this message]
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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