Re: getaddrinfo broken on AIX
>>>> "MS" == Michael Sperber
<sperber(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:
Valdis> But if disabling getaddrinfo incurs no loss of functionality, why are
Valdis> we checking for it in the first place?
MS> Transition to the relevant POSIX / Unix98 API which is supposed to
MS> supersede the old BSD interface.
More specificially, getaddrinfo is the way we're supposed to do all
network connections in the future, and the only way that will work
with IPv6.
The author of the getaddrinfo patch is URA Hiroshi <ura(a)hiru.aoba.yokohama.jp>.
He should be cc:ed on any messages.
Martin