Re: Cleaning up the INET/CIDR mess - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Greg Stark
Subject Re: Cleaning up the INET/CIDR mess
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Msg-id 87bqxzud0r.fsf@stark.xeocode.com
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In response to Re: Cleaning up the INET/CIDR mess  (Andrew - Supernews <andrew+nonews@supernews.com>)
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Andrew - Supernews <andrew+nonews@supernews.com> writes:

> On 2006-01-25, Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> wrote:
> > This isn't an obscure old-fashioned thing. People really do use this syntax.
> 
> Given how little code now supports 10.1 meaning 10.0.0.1, that seems a
> questionable point.

I've reported the bug in the one instance I've found. 
What have you found with this omission?

It would be passing strange since most software just passes the text to
inet_aton or inet_pton.

Incidentally I mixed up getaddrinfo and inet_pton in a previous message. Sorry
for the confusion.

-- 
greg



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