Yaroslav Halchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> ,-----
> | revision 1.17
> | date: 2000/03/03 11:35:33;  author: damien;  state: Exp;  lines: +9 -1
> |  - Don't permanently fail on bind() if getaddrinfo has more choices left for
> |  us. Needed to work around messy IPv6 on Linux. Patch from Arkadiusz
> |  Miskiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> `---

> So it IPv6 still messy? if not, then probably this patch indeed could be
> safely deapplied I guess ;-)

This is probably referring to binding an IPv6 :: socket and getting IPv4
for free, so that a subsequent bind to an IPv4 0.0.0.0 address fails.  So
far as I know, this is still the Linux IPv6 behavior.

-- 
Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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