Re: [PATCH] 2.5.40 - remove IPV6_ADDRFORM

kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
Thu, 3 Oct 2002 20:04:03 +0400 (MSD)


Hello!

> Are we absolutely sure no applications use this?

To my shame I have to recognize: my local inetd/sendmail/ftpd still use it,
despite of all my many years snivels that it is mad-broken-crap-... :-)

Though, nothing to shame of, actually. IPV6_ADDRFORM was mad,
but IPv4 mapped addresses are mad^3. So, until IPV6_V6ONLY becomes usable,
port spaces are shared and the only way to write sane dual-protocol code
is IPV6_ADDRFORM.

:-) This is not objection against removal. Let it happen simultaneously
with IPV6_V6ONLY.

Alexey
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