On 26/10/2011 08:47, Charles Lee wrote:
But I do not get getaddrinfo is ipv6 specified. Do I miss sth?
If I recall correctly, when the support for IPv6 was added (predates
OpenJDK as it was jdk1.4, as in 10 years ago) then
getaddrinfo/getnameinfo/etc. wasn't not widely supported and if I think
was part of the RFC that defined the socket extensions for IPv6. I don't
think this code has changed too much since then and probably could do
with a clean-up. That said, I would be surprised if there are platforms
that don't have gethostbyname/gethostbyaddr and their reentrant forms.
I'm curious as to the background to this thread, are you porting to some
platform that doesn't have the legacy gethostbyname/gethostbyaddr or
just auditing the use of the system and library calls?
-Alan
