Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:39:04 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: follow-up: discrepancy with POSIX |
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On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:15:10 -0700 (PDT) David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> > Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:21:47 -0700 > > > If you think the POSIX spec is wrong (and can point to other > > implementations doing the same as Linux) let me know and I'll work on > > getting the spec changed. > > The whole AF_UNSPEC thing I'm almost certain comes from BSD, which has > behaved that way for centuries.
We got it from the 1003.4g draft socket specification if I remember rightly. Its entirely plausible that got it from 4BSE.
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