PR libc/1635

[Ulrich Drepper]

Mark Kettenis <kettenis@wins.uva.nl> writes:

> I'm surprised to hear that.  Did I miss something?  They're still
> present in the Austin draft 3, and I haven't seen any traffick on the
> Austin mailing list about them.  And AFAIK RFC 2553bis
> (draft-ietf-ipngwg-rfc2553bis) isn't amended/withdrawn either.

I know.  I met the people responsible for all this.  The problem with
getipnode*() is that they are not able to fill all the information for
IPv6 (e.g, the sin6_scope_id and sin6_flowinfo info).

> Anyway, if they're really going to be replaced, we definitely
> shouldn't add them (remove getipnodybyaddr() again).

This is my information.

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