Messages in this thread | | | From | kuznet@ms2 ... | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.5.40 - remove IPV6_ADDRFORM | Date | Thu, 3 Oct 2002 20:04:03 +0400 (MSD) |
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Hello!
> Are we absolutely sure no applications use this?
To my shame I have to recognize: my local inetd/sendmail/ftpd still use it, despite of all my many years snivels that it is mad-broken-crap-... :-)
Though, nothing to shame of, actually. IPV6_ADDRFORM was mad, but IPv4 mapped addresses are mad^3. So, until IPV6_V6ONLY becomes usable, port spaces are shared and the only way to write sane dual-protocol code is IPV6_ADDRFORM.
:-) This is not objection against removal. Let it happen simultaneously with IPV6_V6ONLY.
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