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Re: AI_V4MAPPED/AI_ALL

From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
To: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk at suse dot de>
Cc: libc-hacker at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 21:35:15 -0800
Subject: Re: AI_V4MAPPED/AI_ALL
Organization: Red Hat, Inc.
References: <20030324121722.GA30686@suse.de>

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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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