[RFC PATCH 0/2] Add AF_VSOCK support to getnameinfo(3) and getaddrinfo(3)

Florian Weimer fw@deneb.enyo.de
Thu Sep 29 13:26:00 GMT 2016


* Stefan Hajnoczi:

> Many existing programs use getnameinfo(3) and getaddrinfo(3).
> Porting programs to support AF_VSOCK is easy if the library
> functions can handle this address family.  Without support in glibc
> each program needs to duplicate address parsing code and it becomes
> harder to port programs.

What has changed since the previous discussion?

  <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-help/2015-08/msg00004.html>

How do you expect that applications will know that they have to pass
AF_VSOCK to getaddrinfo instead of AF_UNSPEC?



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