Bug#164768: libc: IPv6 still not correct.

[Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>]

On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 11:53:20AM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
> 
> On Thursday, October 17, 2002, at 10:35 AM, Ben Collins wrote:
> 
> >No, sshd should be checking the validity of the data that is returned 
> >to
> >it.
> 
> If a program makes a correct library call to glibc, and glibc returns a 
> result code that indicates success, and yet returns data the 
> contradicts the relevant documentation, standards, etc. How is that a 
> bug in the program making the library call?
> 
> This seems either a bug in glibc or the 2.2 kernels. Saying its in the 
> client program seems rather far fetched.

Glibc expects the correct data from the kernel. So by your logic, the
kernel has the bug, ultimately.

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