Re: follow-up: discrepancy with POSIX

[Alan Cox]

On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:15:10 -0700 (PDT)
David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 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
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