[PATCH] Allow getaddrinfo() to accept SCTP socket types in hints

Ulrich Drepper drepper@redhat.com
Wed Oct 18 22:51:00 GMT 2006


Sridhar Samudrala wrote:
> The SCTP API is currently available to the users via libsctp in
> lksctp-tools package and is included in all the major linux
> distributions including RHEL, SLES, Fedora etc.

This doesn't answer any question.  If the code would be ready for prime 
time the correct place would be, along with the other network 
interfaces, in glibc.  If it's not ready then any getaddrinfo support is 
premature and too costly.

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