[illumos-Developer] [PATCH]: correct inet_pton behavior

[Vitaliy Gusev]

On 07/16/2011 01:09 AM, Richard Lowe wrote:
> I'm surprised that the consumers who worked around this didn't fix it,
> but that also makes me somewhat suspicious.
>
> What are the chances that 3rd party modules also work around this, and
> would break if we fixed it?

It can be a problem. But:

    1. This is a bug. At least function with that name *SHOULD* return 
result in network byte order.

    2. This function is not aften used. In the kernel we see only 3 places.

    3. Any caller needs to do additional steps to place result in 
network order and those steps are different for AF_INET and AF_INET6.


I'm thinking specifically of things like
> AFS here.
>
> -- Rich