Em Tue, May 13, 2008 at 08:37:38PM +0300, Rémi Denis-Courmont escreveu: > Le Tuesday 13 May 2008 20:03:25 Gerrit Renker, vous avez écrit : > > Using work-arounds is brittle and frustrating when the API behaviour > > suddenly changes. My experience of using such a wrapper was: > > > > * it passed UDP(-Lite), TCP through without changing the socket type; > > * when passed DCCP, it set the socket type to 0, to avoid `ai_socktype > > not supported' getaddrinfo error; > > > * this used to work fine until about January, when something in the > > lookup machinery for dual-stack hosts changed: > > - before, AF_UNSPEC + ai_socktype=0 put IPv6 first into the result list, > > - now the the result order is reversed (IPv4 sockets are returned first) > > You're probably using a recent libc that applies RFC3484 _properly_. If you > still want IPv6 first, no matter what addresses the host has, I think the > AI_PASSIVE flag should do the trick. Then again, working around RFC3484 > policy is _not_ a good idea. > > As far as I am concerned, for DCCP, I (meaning VLC) currently use SOCK_STREAM, > and overrides the socktype and protocol fields in the socket() call > manually - so I don't get a TCP socjet. > > In any case, getaddrinfo() should be patched to > 1/ accept ai_socktype == SOCK_DCCP and ai_protocol == IPPROTO_DCCP, > 2/ accept ai_socktype == SOCK_DCCP and ai_protocol == 0, > and set ai_protocol to IPPROTO_DCCP in the results, > 3/ (perhaps?) accept ai_protocol == IPPROTO_DCCP and ai_socktype == 0, > and set ai_socktype to SOCK_DCCP in the results. > > Similarly: > 1/ accept ai_socktype == SOCK_DGRAM and ai_protocol == IPPROTO_UDPLITE, > 2/ (intentionally omitted - keep normal UDP non-Lite behavior) > 3/ (perhaps?) accept ai_protocol == IPPROTO_UDPLITE and ai_socktype == 0, > and set ai_socktype to SOCK_DGRAM in the results. > > Voilà. Best to check this with Ulrich Drepper, no? Cest bon! Agreed. Ulrich? - Arnaldo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe dccp" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html