Re: AppleTalk & ISO maintenance

[David Young <dyoung%pobox.com@localhost>]

On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 09:00:40PM +0100, David Laight wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 02:30:11PM -0500, David Young wrote:
> > I'd like for both getnameinfo(3) and getaddrinfo(3) to support AF_ATALK
> > and AF_ISO.  I believe it is best if one of ISO's / AppleTalk's users,
> > someone who knows the conventions for writing names, addresses, and
> > service names in those address families, to add support.  Can I get a
> > couple of volunteers? :-)
> 
> I've written the ISO network protocols, (X.25 levels 2 & 3, transport classes
> 0, 2 (both variants), 3 (both variants), and 4, and the ISO network service)
> be we never ever had a clue how you could get all the required addressing
> needed by various networks into a 'struct sockaddr'!

Nevertheless, we read and write ISO addresses from the kernel in the
form of sockaddrs. :-)

Dave

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