Re: Default value of net.ipv6.bindv6only should revert to 0

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Subject: Re: Default value of net.ipv6.bindv6only should revert to 0
From: Salvo Tomaselli <tiposchi@tiscali.it>
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:05:08 +0200
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On Tuesday 13 April 2010 11:33:15 George Danchev wrote:
> It is legit to change a default value (regardless what standards says, if
> you can't change a default value it it then a hard-coded one), and it is
> pretty lame to assume a default value will never be changed. This assumption
> also fails on systems where IPv6 sockets are always IPv6-only.
Do you have any example of a posix system call that in a certain version had a 
different semantic than the previous posix version?

I can hardly believe this could ever happen.

Bye
-- 
Salvo Tomaselli

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