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SubjectRe: follow-up: discrepancy with POSIX
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Andi Kleen wrote:
> The standard way to undo connect is to use AF_UNSPEC. Code to handle
> that for dgram sockets is there. It's the same code for v4 and v6.

I quoted the standard and it does not say anything about AF_UNSPEC. So
you cannot simply make such broad statements.

I also don't say that this behavior should be removed. It's certainly
useful, very much so in fact.

But the spec calls for a "null address" to be used and that's in my
understanding something different from using AF_UNSPEC.

I looked through Stevens TCP Illustrated Vol 2 and it seems not to
mention resetting the address at all. The POSIX spec certainly got this
text from .1g.

I cannot test it on other systems. If somebody has access to some
certified systems (and maybe others), write a bit of code which creates
a DGRAM socket, connect to one address, call connect with a "null
address", then connect to another address (which likely has to use a
different interface since otherwise the connect will just succeed, it
seems).

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