On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 01:00:22AM +0900, itojun@iijlab.net wrote:
> 
> >>If I understand the issue, you want to change inet_aton() and inet_addr().
> >>if inet_pton may not do historical processing, my suggestion is to create a
> >>new inet_pton4_internal with an additional flag parameter.
> >>if flag 0, accept historical addresses
> >>if flat 1, don't.
> >>then call inet_pton4_internal(...,...,1) from inet_pton4() and 
> >>inet_pton4_internal(...,...,0) from inet_addr and inet_aton.
> >That is the correct fix. 
> 
> 	I don't intend to change inet_{addr,aton}().  they are supposed to 
> 	take short form.  the spec non-conformance is in inet_pton() only.

Oh yes. What I suggest above should do it.

Regards,
	-is