On Thu, 20 Sep 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> (assuming that you are talking about the listener side) if you ignore
> errors from bind(2) you should be able to do this. On Solaris/OpenBSD/
> FreeBSD/whatever, you will open two sockets with the code. On Linux,
> you will open AF_INET6 socket only (and you will grab both IPv4 and
> IPv6 traffic).
Oh, sure. I've made Exim work in all cases.[*] I was just pointing out that
you can't just "listen on two sockets" on all platforms, without taking
into account these differences.
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[*] It is listen() rather than bind() that fails. Exim ignores the error
iff it is EADDRINUSE and previously a successful listen() was done on an
IPv6 socket.
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