AI_V4MAPPED/AI_ALL

Ulrich Drepper drepper@redhat.com
Sun Mar 30 20:11:00 GMT 2003


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Thorsten Kukuk wrote:

> POSIX and rfc2553 mentions AI_V4MAPPED and AI_ALL as flags for
> getaddrinfo(), but we removed them from the public header because
> we don't want people to use them. What where the reasons for this?

The RFCs are changed far too frequently for my taste.  I'm not positive
about adding anything not already in POSIX unless it's really proven to
be stable and not changed in a couple of months.

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