On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 10:09:20AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Kurt Roeckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I just saw in the cvs web that you changed freeaddrinfo2 to not > > have the hint af anymore, and use the one from the struct addrinfo > > itself. > > > This can break things. If you called getaddrinfo2() with > > AF_UNSPEC, the version from the system can return an AF_UNIX > > socket. For instance glibc 2.1 will do that. > > If this is broken then it's probably not the only problem --- we rely on > sa.sa_family in other places.
sa.sa_family is not the problem itself, the problem is that if you use getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC, you can get more than replies with more than 1 address family. You will get atleast AF_INET, AF_INET6 if they exist for what you request, and maybe AF_UNIX or even others. Kurt ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
