Ian Dowse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Another important reason to add this feature is for compatibility
> with other platforms' getaddrinfo() implementations. I just tried
> a random Linux box here, and it seems to have very similar behaviour
> to that implemented by my patch. There is also the general idea
> that the way to encourage people to use a "preferred" interface is
> to make it useful in as many situations as possible :-)
Note that glibc just commented out PF_LOCAL support. But before that,
getaddrinfo PF_UNSPEC actually could return PF_LOCAL addresses, which
I think is not obvious and kind of wrong. Having it work for
ai_family == PF_LOCAL seems ok to me.
/assar
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