Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:26:53 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: follow-up: discrepancy with POSIX |
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On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 09:49:09AM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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.
Ok "standard" was perhaps a poor choice of words.
AF_UNSPEC used to be introduced long ago by Alan based on some early POSIX draft iirc.
Also incidentially it's a null address:
include/linux/socket.h:#define AF_UNSPEC 0
> 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
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