[openssl/openssl] bio_dgram vs IPv6

Michael Richardson mcr at sandelman.ca
Tue Mar 22 16:22:49 UTC 2022


Michael Wojcik <Michael.Wojcik at microfocus.com> wrote:
    > The RFC specifically mentions using this API to retrieve and set
    > addresses, so it seems like a fix for issue 5257 does need to use it,
    > if that's to be done in a portable way.

    > 3542 is only Informational, but I'd expect most or all platforms with
    > IPv6 support to conform to it.

The issue isn't whether we can expect it to be standard.
The issue is what we can use as a signal that the header exists.
To date, I don't think that openssl has had to know if IPv6 existed or not on
a particular platform.



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