Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:57:00 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: follow-up: discrepancy with POSIX |
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On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 10:46:54AM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Andi Kleen wrote: > >> 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 > > But the spec calls for <quote>null address for the protocol</quote>. > > That means the family for the null address is the same as the family of > the socket.
Spec doesn't match traditional behaviour then. IPv4 0.0.0.0 is traditionally an synonym for old style all broadcast (255.255.255.255) on UDP/RAW and it's certainly possible to connect() to that.
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