"Tony Hoyle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 3c7a2d2c.436034765@tony-home">news:3c7a2d2c.436034765@tony-home... > On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 10:30:39 +0000 (UTC), "Anthony Williams" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> > >Next, protocols/common.c uses struct addrinfo and the getaddrinfo function, > >which is Windows-specific. I am therfore surprised it works on Linux. > >Anyway, this is not a two-minute fix, so I'll leave it to you.... > > > The other stuff is fixable. I presume you have an old version of > solaris, though, as getaddrinfo is standard (and required for ipv6 > suport). Windows was actually quite late implementing it - the > reference implementation is BSD. > > AFAIK it's supported under solaris 2.8 and above.
Aha. I am using Solaris 2.7. Any chance of support? I didn't know it was standard --- my MSDN docs say "This is a Microsoft-specific extension to Windows sockets"! However, if I hunt around (as I just did), then it does say it was added "to provide IPv6 compatibility". Anthony -- Anthony Williams Software Engineer, Nortel Networks Optical Components Ltd The opinions expressed in this message are not necessarily those of my employer _______________________________________________ Cvsnt mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt
