In article <20000222130839.A26768@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (at Tue, 22 Feb 2000
13:08:39 +0100), Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <misiek@xxxxxxxxxx> says:
> Currently Linux SIOCGIFCONF doesn't return any IPv6 addresses
> because sockaddr filled with ipv6 addr doesnt fit ...
>
> Kame guys said that it doesn't matter if we correctly
> parse output.
:
> this won't break old applications because they are using AF_INET socket
> and will allow to get ipv6 adresses ...
>
> ANK: what you think about this ?
It might be done AFTER sin6_scope_id goes into the kernel.
(Alexey, please, please take it into the kernel!)
Alternatively, we may standardize / deploy new function like
getifaddrs() on BSDi.
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