Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:52:51 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: follow-up: discrepancy with POSIX | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:49:09 -0700
> But the spec calls for a "null address" to be used and that's in my > understanding something different from using AF_UNSPEC.
It just occured to me that AF_UNSPEC might be used simply because "all zeros" might be a valid real bindable address for some address family. And using AF_UNSPEC avoids that problem entirely. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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