Adding AF_VSOCK to getaddrinfo(3)

Stefan Hajnoczi stefanha@redhat.com
Wed Aug 26 13:00:00 GMT 2015


On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 05:09:48PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> I can see why this proposal is tempting, but it's too late.  This
> enhancement had to be made right when getaddrinfo was introduced.

Thanks for explaining.  I understand your points and it does seem safer
not to parse vsock addresses for AF_UNSPEC.



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