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Re: AI_V4MAPPED/AI_ALL

On Sat, Mar 29, Ulrich Drepper wrote:

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> Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
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> > POSIX and rfc2553 mentions AI_V4MAPPED and AI_ALL as flags for
> > getaddrinfo(), but we removed them from the public header because
> > we don't want people to use them. What where the reasons for this?
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> The RFCs are changed far too frequently for my taste.  I'm not positive
> about adding anything not already in POSIX unless it's really proven to
> be stable and not changed in a couple of months.

Ok, AI_V4MAPPED and AI_ALL are specified in POSIX, rfc2553 and
rfc3493. So I doubt that it will be changed in the near future
again, I think something specified in POSIX should be stable 
enought to include in glibc.

I append a patch which adds both defines to resolv/netdb.h and
implements it in getaddrinfo(). (Looking at the ugly getaddrinfo
code, it seems we really need a new, clean implementation :( ).

  Thorsten

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