Re: HELP - Solaris9 & getpeername()

From: Casper H.S. Dik (Casper.Dik_at_Sun.COM)
Date: 10/27/03 

Date: 27 Oct 2003 10:36:19 GMT

Oleg Yakovlev <yashka@optima.net.ua> writes:

>I watch very strange behavior of the getpeername() in Solaris9. This
>function returns sa_family=26 (IPV6) **ALWAYS**. I created short test
>for it:

I think your complaint should be directed at the X11 library; it *always*
uses an IPv6 socket when connecting over TCP/IP.

Why is that a problem? The peer address is likely a "IPv4 mapped" address.

Casper 

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