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Re: bug in glibc2.1 IPv6?



On 26 Jan 2000, Brian May wrote:
 
> If you try to call "socket" with IPv6 parameters, and IPv6 is not
> compiled into the kernel, then glibc2.1 returns EINVAL. Shouldn't it
> return ENOSYS or EAFNOSUPPORT?

AFNOSUPPORT sounds really good, but probably reasons why not :<
 
> Also, is getaddrinfo a glibc function? I cannot find any information
> on this function :-(.

Yes, read RFC 2553 for docs

Jason


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