Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> writes: > The problems of inet_ntoa are summarized in our documentation > (doc/posix-functions/inet_ntoa.texi). The biggest problem is that > it does not support IPv6. IPv6 is everywhere nowadays: internet > providers give out IPv6 addresses to their customers, and probably > 2/3 of the websites I usually connect to have both an IPv6 and > an IPv4 address.
Ah, I forgot about that. Ignore my comments then I was speaking from rough memory. :) > Therefore, it makes no sense to maintain programs that work > only with IPv4 and not with IPv6. [...] > So, I don't think adding an inet_ntoa module to Gnulib would really > help anyone. Agreed. Collin
