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Subject: Re: how to get AF_LOCAL from getaddrinfo() 
From: itojun@iijlab.net
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 00:56:55 +0900
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	i still am not getting your motive...  do you have actual applications
	that use getaddrinfo/getnameinfo for AF_UNIX?

>>	the change will break a lot of applications.  specifically:
>Thanks for your comments. I may not have explained this very well;
>the proposed change only takes effect when getaddrinfo() is given
>a `hints' structure with hints->ai_family set to PF_LOCAL. No
>existing applications have any reason to set hints->ai_family to
>PF_LOCAL, so they should not see any change in behaviour.

	i'm sorry.  i misread your patch about "explore" portion.

	but still - how many special case behavior do we want to put?
	there are a lot of other AFs... which item is included in AF_UNSPEC
	and which are not?  if we want uniformity, we will break existing apps.
	if we don't want to break existing apps, we need to drop uniformity.
	it is a hard question to ask...

itojun

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