[Patch] rexec check for sockaddr length

Ulrich Drepper drepper@redhat.com
Sat Apr 7 16:30:00 GMT 2001


Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> writes:

> I have a patch for the rexec() function. Through the changed size
> of sockaddr_in6 between kernel 2.2 and 2.4 this check will always
> fail with IPv6 on kernel 2.2.

That's life.  All IPv6 code fails on 2.2 kernels.  If people want IPv6
they have to use 2.4 kernels.

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