linux-kernel - Re: follow-up: discrepancy with POSIX

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Message-Id: <20070919.095251.45154496.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:52:51 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	drepper@...hat.com
Cc:	andi@...stfloor.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: follow-up: discrepancy with POSIX

From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:49:09 -0700

> But the spec calls for a "null address" to be used and that's in my
> understanding something different from using AF_UNSPEC.

It just occured to me that AF_UNSPEC might be used simply
because "all zeros" might be a valid real bindable address
for some address family.  And using AF_UNSPEC avoids that
problem entirely.
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