From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: drepper@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: follow-up: discrepancy with POSIX
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:39:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070919173904.3987ec1b@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070919.091510.00787167.davem@davemloft.net>
On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:15:10 -0700 (PDT)
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
> Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:21:47 -0700
>
> > If you think the POSIX spec is wrong (and can point to other
> > implementations doing the same as Linux) let me know and I'll work on
> > getting the spec changed.
>
> The whole AF_UNSPEC thing I'm almost certain comes from BSD, which has
> behaved that way for centuries.
We got it from the 1003.4g draft socket specification if I remember
rightly. Its entirely plausible that got it from 4BSE.
Alan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-19 16:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-19 15:21 Ulrich Drepper
2007-09-19 15:47 ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-19 16:49 ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-09-19 16:52 ` David Miller
2007-09-19 17:04 ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-09-19 17:27 ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-09-19 17:26 ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-19 17:46 ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-09-19 17:57 ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-19 18:02 ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-09-19 18:30 ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-19 18:38 ` Rick Jones
2007-09-19 19:40 ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-19 20:33 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-09-19 18:06 ` Alan Cox
2007-09-19 16:15 ` David Miller
2007-09-19 16:39 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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