On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 10:26:41PM +0900, itojun@iijlab.net wrote:
> 
> >	inet_pton() included in src/lib/libc/net is not spec conformant.
> 
> 	http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/basesrc/lib/libc/net/inet_pton.c
> 	1.2 -> 1.3

> 	was the change really the right one?  shouldn't this be addressed
> 	by changing gethostbyname2() (and child functions) instead?

Uhm... the change was to check for overflows! It already misbehaved before!

If I understand the issue, you want to change inet_aton() and inet_addr().

if inet_pton may not do historical processing, my suggestion is to create a
new inet_pton4_internal with an additional flag parameter.
if flag 0, accept historical addresses
if flat 1, don't.

then call inet_pton4_internal(...,...,1) from inet_pton4() and 
inet_pton4_internal(...,...,0) from inet_addr and inet_aton.

Regards,
	-is


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