Re: follow-up: discrepancy with POSIX

From: Ulrich Drepper
Date: Wed Sep 19 2007 - 13:47:27 EST


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Andi Kleen wrote:
>> But the spec calls for a "null address" to be used and that's in my
>> understanding something different from using AF_UNSPEC.
>
> memset(&sockaddr, 0, sizeof(sockaddr)) should give you AF_UNSPEC

But the spec calls for <quote>null address for the protocol</quote>.

That means the family for the null address is the same as the family of
the socket.

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