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Re: (usagi-users 00210) Re: glibc 2.2.2

To: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 <yoshfuji at linux-ipv6 dot org>
Subject: Re: (usagi-users 00210) Re: glibc 2.2.2
From: Philip Blundell <philb at gnu dot org>
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 18:11:40 +0000
cc: drepper at cygnus dot com, misiek at pld dot org dot pl, libc-alpha at sourceware dot cygnus dot com, usagi-users at linux-ipv6 dot org, aj at suse dot de
References: <m3lmr7723a.fsf@otr.mynet.cygnus.com> <m3hf1sasv4.wl@shaku.sfc.wide.ad.jp> <u8elwvx6h6.fsf@gromit.rhein-neckar.de> <20010219024805F.yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>

>I know it is not standard, but you should not have removed it simply 
>because its the non-standardness; there are too many applications to
>remove it.

The IPv6 API is still in a state of flux.  We don't want to keep all the old 
extensions around for the sake of applications that haven't yet been updated.

p.

References:
- glibc 2.2.2
  - From: Ulrich Drepper
- Re: glibc 2.2.2
  - From: Yuji Sekiya
- Re: glibc 2.2.2
  - From: Andreas Jaeger
- Re: (usagi-users 00210) Re: glibc 2.2.2
  - From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明

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