Overlooked that part of On Monday 12 March 2007 17:08, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote: > This new version still breaks ABI compatibility, > meaning any implementors would have to rebuild any > software using getaddrinfo against a new library.
[...] Sorry, overlooked that part below: > To avoid this, either a new API is defined (e.g. > geteaddrinfo with a struct eaddrinfo), or preference > flags are stored in ai_flags which still has more > than enough bits available for this purpose. The reason for introduction of the extended flag is that indeed someone complained that the ai_flags field will get crowded, and worse, to IPv6 benefit only. --julien -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
