On Tuesday 13 April 2010 07:46:10 Russ Allbery wrote:
It's not an assumption. It's reality that one has to write code against,
because different platforms do different things. Even if you could remove
the option from the Linux kernel (retroactively, changing time to remove
all the systems that already exist), that doesn't change the fact that
Solaris and BSD behave differently.
Solaris is a little bit tricky, i would be very careful talking about it.
I've tried opensolaris and it is not posix by default, many calls behave in a
non-posix way because they were introduced in solaris before they were
introduced in posix, so they have different parameters or semantic.
To have posix in solaris, one must use a bunch of flags at compile-time, for
example: -D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS -lsocket -lnsl
After having enabled the posix compatibility, it works as expected on posix
with ipv6only=0.
The bug is bsd-only.