svn commit: samba r25495 - in branches: SAMBA_3_2/source/lib/replace/system SAMBA_3_2_0/source/lib/replace/system

[Jeremy Allison]

On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 10:58:06AM +0100, David Holder wrote:
> Jeremy,
> 
> Steve Langasek wrote:
> >On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 03:17:22PM -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> >
> >  
> >>Nope - because if you don't have sockaddr_storage
> >>it's a dead cert you don't have sockaddr_in6 - no
> >>IPv6 - so just use IPv4 sockaddr_in.
> >>    
> >
> >  
> >>If we find any platforms where this isn't the
> >>case I can add an #ifdef HAVE_STRUCT_SOCKADDR_IN6
> >>and use that by preference.
> >>    
> >
> >Very old glibc? :)
> >
> >I think glibc got ipv6 support before sockaddr_storage was conceived.
> >
> >  
> True. There will be platforms with IPv6 support that do not have 
> sockaddr_storage in the socket library. There are a number of different 
> ways of testing for IPv6 support that I have come across in IPv6 porting 
> guides from HP, Sun, etc. Why not use the appropriate test for each 
> platform and then if there is no IPv6, define sockaddr_storage as 
> sockaddr_in and if there is IPv6 and no sockaddr_storage define it is 
> sockaddr_in6?

Ok, ok, I'll add it.... Let me finish testing my getaddrinfo
replacement code first :-).

Jeremy.