Garbled IPv6 printout

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 02:35:18PM -0700, Hal Murray via devel wrote:
> I just pushed a fix.  It was an interesting quirk.  The API for accepet 
> includes a pointer and length to a place to put the IP Address of the remote 
> site.  The type of that place is struct sockaddr.  sockaddr is generic, 
> presumably big enough for the biggest address format.  They botched something, 
> I'm not sure what.  A sockaddr isn't big enough for an IPv6 address.

A sockaddr is not meant to store the address, it just provides you
with fields that are there for all variants like sockaddr_in,
sockaddr_in6 and sockaddr_un, so that you can at least see which
type of address it is. You should consider using sockaddr_storage.


Kurt