From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 24 10:23:39 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C75D916A401 for ; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 10:23:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ume@mahoroba.org) Received: from ameno.mahoroba.org (gw4.mahoroba.org [218.45.22.175]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 219CD43D45 for ; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 10:23:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ume@mahoroba.org) Received: from localhost (IDENT:0JNm7BwZBFhO4cyB4sIaF54mGVCvkxo/I+aTQSPUHyBG7/G/zHZhJuWHITLHhOvW@localhost [IPv6:::1]) (user=ume mech=CRAM-MD5 bits=0) by ameno.mahoroba.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP/inet6 id k2OANVqj089885 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 24 Mar 2006 19:23:31 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from ume@mahoroba.org) Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 19:23:31 +0900 Message-ID: From: Hajimu UMEMOTO To: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" In-Reply-To: <20060324100007.C2181@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net> References: <51873.1143193173@critter.freebsd.dk> <20060324100007.C2181@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net> User-Agent: xcite1.38> Wanderlust/2.14.0 (Africa) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.8 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Shij=F2?=) APEL/10.6 Emacs/22.0.50 (i386-unknown-freebsd5.5) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.5-PRERELEASE X-PGP-Key: http://www.imasy.or.jp/~ume/publickey.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 1F00 0B9E 2164 70FC 6DC5 BF5F 04E9 F086 BF90 71FE Organization: Internet Mutual Aid Society, YOKOHAMA MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.1.3 (ameno.mahoroba.org [IPv6:::1]); Fri, 24 Mar 2006 19:23:33 +0900 (JST) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.1 (2006-03-10) on ameno.mahoroba.org Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , FreeBSD current mailing list Subject: Re: addr2ascii() to be retired ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 10:23:39 -0000 Hi, >>>>> On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 10:07:57 +0000 (UTC) >>>>> "Bjoern A. Zeeb" said: bzeeb> On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > I noticed while hunting around for what eventually proved to be > getnameinfo() that addr2ascii() is not used anywhere in our tree. > > Was that API ever used anywhere but in INRIAs IPv6 ? bzeeb> I think it was part of earlier drafts of RFC 2133 which now is 3493. bzeeb> We have inet_ntop instead now[1]. Yes, we don't use it from anywhere in our tree. > Should we discontinue it ? bzeeb> +1 +1 However, it seems addr2ascii() supports AF_LINK which our getnameinfo() doesn't support. Since NetBSD's getnameinfo() supports AF_LINK, it may better to take it from NetBSD. Sincerely, -- Hajimu UMEMOTO @ Internet Mutual Aid Society Yokohama, Japan ume@mahoroba.org ume@{,jp.}FreeBSD.org http://www.imasy.org/~ume/