Re: Remaining actions on me.

[Garrett Wollman <yyyyyyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<<On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 07:17:52 +0100, Andrew Josey <yyyyyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
said:

>  Also on page 289 Section <netdb.h>, add the following text (shaded IP6)
>  between lines 10105 and 10106:

>     AI_ADDRCONFIG   query for IPv4 addresses only when an IPv4 address
>                     is configured; query for IPv6 addresses only when
>                     an IPv6 address is configured

I believe the original intent of the developers was that AI_ADDRCONFIG
should be available even on systems which do not support IPv6, so that
it can be used by protocol-family-independent applications.
(Otherwise, the code would be unnecessarily complicated by only being
able to use AI_ADDRCONFIG if AF_INET6 is defined, which defeats the
purpose of the interface.)  In my view, only the second clause in the
quoted description should be shaded IP6.

-GAWollman