Re: freeaddrinfo2 changes. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: freeaddrinfo2 changes.
Date
Msg-id 17164.1055167760@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Responses Re: freeaddrinfo2 changes.  (Kurt Roeckx <Q@ping.be>)
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Kurt Roeckx <Q@ping.be> writes:
> I just saw in the cvs web that you changed freeaddrinfo2 to not
> have the hint af anymore, and use the one from the struct addrinfo
> itself.

> This can break things.  If you called getaddrinfo2() with
> AF_UNSPEC, the version from the system can return an AF_UNIX
> socket.  For instance glibc 2.1 will do that.

If this is broken then it's probably not the only problem --- we rely on
sa.sa_family in other places.
        regards, tom lane


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