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Re: sockets APIs extensions for Host Identity Protocol

Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Mon, 14 May 2007 16:28 UTC

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From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
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To: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
Subject: Re: sockets APIs extensions for Host Identity Protocol
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On Mon, 14 May 2007, der Mouse wrote:
>
> The major annoyance it has for me is the requirement that, to quote the
> manpage for the version I use, "[i]n this hints structure all members
> other than ai_flags, ai_family, ai_socktype, and ai_protocol must be
> zero or a NULL pointer".  This requires the app to either have a static
> struct addrinfo around or to know the complete list of members of the
> struct - and it's completely unnecessary as far as I can see.

You should be able to just memset() it to 0. (I believe POSIX gives you
more guarantees than C in this respect.)

Tony.
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