On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 01:45:48PM -0400, Peter Memishian wrote:

>  > Yes, but uttering "-D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D__EXTENSIONS__" is oxymoronic,
>  > since you're saying you both want a particular standards environment,
>  > and you don't. These defines don't mean "turn on standards behaviour",
>  > they mean "I am an application that complies with this standard".
> 
> In principle that may be true, but in practice it's not.  As you noted,
> sadly, important networking features like ancillary data are only
> available in an X/Open environment (this is on our list of things to fix),
> so you need to use _XOPEN_SOURCE -- but you have no desire to be stuck
> with strict conformance.

Yes. And what I'm saying is that I've been told several times that this
is a bug not a feature.

john
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