Re: [mif] A question about API

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Sat, 26 September 2015 19:12 UTC

Return-Path: <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
X-Original-To: mif@ietfa.amsl.com
Delivered-To: mif@ietfa.amsl.com
Received: from localhost (ietfa.amsl.com [127.0.0.1]) by ietfa.amsl.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 057E91A1B59 for <mif@ietfa.amsl.com>; Sat, 26 Sep 2015 12:12:05 -0700 (PDT)
X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at amsl.com
X-Spam-Flag: NO
X-Spam-Score: 1.988
X-Spam-Level: *
X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.988 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, FRT_STOCK2=3.988, SPF_PASS=-0.001] autolearn=no
Received: from mail.ietf.org ([4.31.198.44]) by localhost (ietfa.amsl.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id SVEkXcQSvVWK for <mif@ietfa.amsl.com>; Sat, 26 Sep 2015 12:12:04 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from mail-pa0-x235.google.com (mail-pa0-x235.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c03::235]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ietfa.amsl.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 344561A1B48 for <mif@ietf.org>; Sat, 26 Sep 2015 12:12:04 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by padhy16 with SMTP id hy16so135810593pad.1 for <mif@ietf.org>; Sat, 26 Sep 2015 12:12:03 -0700 (PDT)
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=subject:to:references:from:organization:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=ZJULGqOvamDrSaPn+dzMyFYBnH+QRhhxurBAVUEttyQ=; b=TjQoqoMd/DRwRPSrKPLvkkxhQSaeo6hngvpksErj/oev0JF/VdYOHJgG2Il1W7Hi5r 8BrQFv+pXdr+aKM1GBGgrYKzYveLYFpye6yH0zi58hFhWZGiu1DgwYlAUav51VKUXsji daGs2A4EfaFag8VW3J1maiuJXMUh5HSuHSTsTG3rgfcim83iCjUGMtL1NsVZqEdT6R0O IGxwtdrzuvYd9+u6H2JDPdsB6yE+Oxj+cfuhxKQ3DZRd+bzLClHJDicy/b/WJZlMfqGG TLGayoRYOnDY8e09VkOVD6J0u52wuiMB6XgjGXNIwpW0QgcllJP1io+kUBgQCn2L9CH1 bgIQ==
X-Received: by 10.68.234.200 with SMTP id ug8mr16135303pbc.13.1443294723908; Sat, 26 Sep 2015 12:12:03 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from [192.168.178.25] (88.221.47.163.dynamic.snap.net.nz. [163.47.221.88]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id be6sm10569260pad.5.2015.09.26.12.12.01 for <mif@ietf.org> (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 26 Sep 2015 12:12:02 -0700 (PDT)
To: mif@ietf.org
References: <5606D60E.2000901@fer.hr>
From: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
Organization: University of Auckland
Message-ID: <5606EDFF.3030709@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2015 08:11:59 +1300
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0
MIME-Version: 1.0
In-Reply-To: <5606D60E.2000901@fer.hr>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Archived-At: <http://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/mif/JUmc7EEzquWCBU96MZGv794H8i4>
Subject: Re: [mif] A question about API
X-BeenThere: mif@ietf.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15
Precedence: list
List-Id: Multiple Interface Discussion List <mif.ietf.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <https://www.ietf.org/mailman/options/mif>, <mailto:mif-request@ietf.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/mif/>
List-Post: <mailto:mif@ietf.org>
List-Help: <mailto:mif-request@ietf.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/mif>, <mailto:mif-request@ietf.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2015 19:12:05 -0000

On 27/09/2015 06:29, Stjepan Groš wrote:
...
> => proposed changes to setsockopt() and getaddrinfo() break backwards
> compatibility

That seems to be a really, really bad idea.

   Brian