On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 05:29:04AM +0900, Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote: > I'd like to register Socket6 to module list. > Socket6 provides functionality required by IPv6 programming, e.g. > getnameinfo(), getaddrinfo(), sockaddr_in6(), etc. And, Socket6 also > defines IPv6 related definitions defined in sys/socket.h, > e.g. AF_INET6, PF_INET6, and etc. > getaddrinfo() / getnameinfo() are still usable for IPv4. So, we can > do protocol independent programming. > I think these functionality is as same level as Socket, and if I can > use top level, I'd like to use Socket6. Should I use something like > Socket::INET6? > Can I export the names such as getnameinfo itself? Ideally I think these should eventually be included into the Socket module. But until that happens I would say either Socket6 or Socket::IPv6 with my preference being Socket::IPv6. But I am sure other will have other ideas. Graham.
