Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759915AbXISQPg (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:15:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754720AbXISQP0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:15:26 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:39165 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754930AbXISQPZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:15:25 -0400 Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:15:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20070919.091510.00787167.davem@davemloft.net> To: drepper@redhat.com Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: follow-up: discrepancy with POSIX From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <46F13E8B.4050309@redhat.com> References: <46F13E8B.4050309@redhat.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.1.52 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 701 Lines: 17 From: Ulrich Drepper 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. Someone needs to cull through Steven's Volume 2 to verify this, I'm too busy at the moment to do so myself. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/