Re: follow-up: discrepancy with POSIX

On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:15:10 -0700 (PDT)
David Miller [off-list ref] wrote:

From: Ulrich Drepper <redacted>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:21:47 -0700

quoted

If you think the POSIX spec is wrong (and can point to other
implementations doing the same as Linux) let me know and I'll work on
getting the spec changed.

The whole AF_UNSPEC thing I'm almost certain comes from BSD, which has
behaved that way for centuries.

We got it from the 1003.4g draft socket specification if I remember
rightly. Its entirely plausible that got it from 4BSE.

Alan