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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	neilb@suse.de, shemminger@vyatta.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Undefined behaviour of connect(fd, NULL, 0);
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:25:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m21vetc1d8.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1270483012.4722.161.camel@edumazet-laptop> (Eric Dumazet's message of "Mon, 05 Apr 2010 17:56:52 +0200")

Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> writes:

> Solaris man page extract :
>
> "Datagram sockets can dissolve the association by connecting to a null
> address."
>
> What is a null address ? 
>
> 1) A null pointer ? 
> 2) a pointer to a zone, but length of this zone is 0
> 3) Or a pointer to a zone filled with NULL bytes ?

Btw., POSIX.1 has changed the description from "If address is a null
address for the protocol, the socket's peer address shall be reset" in
the 2004 edition to "If the sa_family member of address is AF_UNSPEC,
the socket's peer address shall be reset" in the 2009 edition.

Andreas.

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-05 16:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-31 11:36 Undefined behaviour of connect(fd, NULL, 0); Neil Brown
2010-03-31 18:49 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-03-31 20:24   ` Neil Brown
2010-03-31 21:14     ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-03-31 21:17     ` David Miller
2010-03-31 22:07       ` Neil Brown
2010-04-01  3:00         ` Changli Gao
2010-04-01  3:38           ` Neil Brown
2010-04-01  4:16             ` Changli Gao
2010-04-01  5:50               ` Changli Gao
2010-04-01  7:23               ` David Miller
2010-04-05  9:23                 ` Changli Gao
2010-04-05 15:56                   ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-05 16:25                     ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2010-04-05 19:25                   ` David Miller

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