[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH/RFC] Prefer getaddrinfo over gethostbyname

Martin Storsjö martin
Tue Jan 12 11:26:48 CET 2010


On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Luca Abeni wrote:

> Sorry, I missed this thread... Anyway, I am ok with it (but: what was the
> problem with the patch I originally approved?)

That patch left some use of sockaddr_in6 in the ipv6 codepath that I had 
missed, and the ipv6 codepath used the ss_family field of sockaddr_storage 
(that our replacement didn't provide). The new series in the "[PATCH] 
Clean up ipv6 vs the udp protocol" thread should handle this better.

// Martin



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