sockaddr_storage

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Fri Jan 27 21:01:01 UTC 2017


Mark Atwood <fallenpegasus at gmail.com>:
> I like the idea of removing more IPv4 specific code.
> 
> If we do, can we still get arrival timestamp from the kernel?

I'm pretty sure the answer is "yes".  Checking...it doesn't look like
that code has any dependency on the address family.

> How do standard display functions display v6 mapped v4 addresses?   How do
> we want them displayed?
> 
> Are there any places left in the code that are storing addresses in
> packed-4-octets or ints?

These are areas I will have to investigate. 
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