Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 01:07:51 +0900 (JST) From: Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume@mahoroba.org> To: dima@unixfreak.org Cc: ru@freebsd.org, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/libexec/talkd announce.c Message-ID: <20010715.010751.41712475.ume@mahoroba.org> In-Reply-To: <20010713165700.BDE8A3E2F@bazooka.unixfreak.org> References: <ygehewg7r5q.wl@piano.mahoroba.org> <20010713165700.BDE8A3E2F@bazooka.unixfreak.org>
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>>>>> On Fri, 13 Jul 2001 09:57:00 -0700
>>>>> Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> said:
dima> I did think about that when writing that code (I like the new
dima> interface so much better than the crufty old one), but talk assumes
dima> IPv4 so much that it really doesn't matter, and deviating from that
dima> here only leads to inconsistency. I doubt talk works over IPv6, and
dima> looking at /usr/include/protocols/talkd.h, I don't think it's trivial
dima> (if possible) to make it work over IPv6 without breaking backwards
dima> comaptibility. Perhaps a talk6 is in order?
Yup, I forgot that talk is heavily depend on IPv4 and it's hard to
support IPv6. So, talk is exception.
In anyway, I believe reducing the code which is depending to address
family is good. Someone may try to support IPv6 in the future.
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