Messages in this thread | | | Subject | RE: Why size of sockaddr smaller than size of sockaddr_in6? | Date | Fri, 7 Nov 2003 11:00:55 +0800 | From | "Zheng, Jeff" <> |
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Hello Hideaki YOSHIFUJI,
Thanks for your reply.
Is sockaddr_storage part of IPv6? I mean, does sockaddr_storage exist in a system that does not have IPv6? In such system if I use sockaddr_in6, the compile will be failed because there is no sockaddr_in6 structure.
> Thanks > Jeff Jeff.Zheng@intel.com > BTW, I speak for myself, not for Intel Corp.
-----Original Message----- From: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI [mailto:yoshfuji@cerberus.hongo.wide.ad.jp]On Behalf Of yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 10:24 AM To: Zheng, Jeff Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Why size of sockaddr smaller than size of sockaddr_in6?
Hello.
In article <37FBBA5F3A361C41AB7CE44558C3448E07EC27@pdsmsx403.ccr.corp.intel.com> (at Fri, 7 Nov 2003 10:04:05 +0800), "Zheng, Jeff" <jeff.zheng@intel.com> says:
> I thought that sockaddr should hold sockaddr_in sockaddr_in6 and any other socket address (or at least sockaddr_in6).
No, we do not change sockaddr{}. use sockaddr_storage{} for that purpose. Please read RFC 3493.
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