getaddrinfo security problem ?

[Thorsten Kukuk]

On Tue, May 22, Philip.Blundell@pobox.com wrote:

> >I would vote for the first option, removing
> >it completly like BSD has done this.
> 
> That seems reasonable to me.  As far as I know nobody uses Unix sockets in
> this way.

Ok, I removed the gaih_local code complete, AF_UNIX is now not longer
supported by getaddrinfo and we don't have the security problems
with sockets in /tmp.

I append the patch for getaddrinfo.c and the test program.

  Thorsten

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