getnameinfo from glibc 2.1.94

Ulrich Drepper drepper@redhat.com
Fri Sep 29 09:47:00 GMT 2000


Artur Frysiak <wiget@pld.org.pl> writes:

> If changing sockaddr_in6 breaks backword compatibility with glibc 2.1.3 of
> getnameinfo then maybe ist time to drop getnameinfo(GLIBC_2.1) versioned
> symbol and introduce getnameinfo(GLIBC_2.2) ?

It's only changing for IPv6 and IPv6 is in flux.  Everybody using it
must be aware of it.  I don't want to introduce all this hassle just
because those $%%/§ in the IPv6 working group don't get their acts
together.

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