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<<On Thu, 10 May 2001 09:09:07 -0700, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> said:

> Shouldn't it do the mapping of addrhint.ai_protocol=6 (tcp)
> into ai_socktype = SOCK_STREAM?

No.  In the socket model, the protocol is subordinate to the type of
socket.  (For example, XNS SPP can implements both SOCK_SEQPACKET and
SOCK_STREAM.)

-GAWollman


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