Subject: Re: basesrc/lib/libc/net: getaddrinfo.c
To: <>
From: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
List: source-changes
Date: 01/18/2000 00:59:22
>Log Message:
>do not filter address families that are not supported by kernel.
>the behavior was introduced in 1.8 -> 1.9, by itojun, and it was
>not a correct behavior.
>
>even if we may be able to connect to the the returned addresses,
>filtering them out is not a correct thing to do.  for example, even if
>you have partial unreachablility in IPv4, gethostbyname(3) will return
>IPv4 addresses in the unreachable network nonetheless.

	2nd paragraph should read "even if we may NOT be able to...".

itojun