Le 2014-05-02 04:13, Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas a écrit :
I don't like AI_ADDRCONFIG. It's useless as specified, and making it
useful requires interpretations and deviations.
Can you justify this? Sounds to me like a blanket statement as it is.
My understanding is that its goal is to solve a
Simon Perreault si...@per.reau.lt writes:
Le 2014-05-02 04:13, Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas a écrit :
I don't like AI_ADDRCONFIG. It's useless as specified, and making it
useful requires interpretations and deviations.
Can you justify this? Sounds to me like a blanket statement as it is.
Le 2014-05-02 10:48, Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas a écrit :
Let's say you have a machine with no IPv6 address configured (or rather,
only link-local addresses configured and ::1 on lo0). With the
AI_ADDRCONFIG flag (either set explicitely or assumed if the caller
passes no hints structure):
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Simon Perreault si...@per.reau.lt writes:
Le 2014-05-02 10:48, Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas a écrit :
Let's say you have a machine with no IPv6 address configured (or rather,
only link-local addresses configured and ::1 on lo0). With the
AI_ADDRCONFIG flag (either set explicitely or assumed if
I think I have already addressed all your points below, no need to
rehash endlessly. I'll let others chime in.
I'm still very interested in any real-world problems this might have caused.
Simon
Le 2014-05-02 11:35, Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas a écrit :
Simon Perreault si...@per.reau.lt writes:
On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 05:35:13PM +0200, Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas wrote:
| If you're running on a host without IPv6, why would you want
| getaddrinfo() to return any IPv6 results? What good would it do to you?
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| What's a regular OpenBSD host with no IPv6? I'd assume that it is
| a host that
j...@wxcvbn.org (Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas) writes:
Simon Perreault si...@per.reau.lt writes:
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Has this caused any real-world problems?
All the examples I've listed above are cases where programs that used no
hints will now fail. I think they're valid, real-world cases.
Some bugs:
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Le 2014-05-02 13:19, Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas a écrit :
Some bugs:
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12398
- http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.freedesktop.xcb/6973
- https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/8503
Links with more information:
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