:
:The following was initially formatted as PR, but I suppose it is reasonable
:to discuss first here. There were some vague mentions that sin_zero field
:of struct sockaddr_in may be used in future for some extensions; but this
:future is already expired;) without any real step.
:If the verdict will be to keep current behavior, it should be strictly
:documented to remove this permanent rake field.
:
:>Description:
:
:If bind() syscall is called for PF_INET socket with address another than
:INADDR_ANY, and sin_zero field in addr parameter is not filled with
:...
Nobody in their right mind uses a struct sockaddr_in or any other
struct sock* type of structure without zeroing it first. I suppose
we can document that in the man pages, but we certainly should not go
hacking up the kernel code to work around bad programmers.
-Matt
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