Backwards compatibility at any cost?
Backwards compatibility at any cost?
Posted Nov 14, 2024 7:01 UTC (Thu) by smurf (subscriber, #17840)In reply to: Backwards compatibility at any cost? by dvdeug
Parent article: The trouble with struct sockaddr's fake flexible array
The Sockets API isn't the problem. It happens not to embed a sockaddr in anything, much less in the middle of another struct.
Posted Nov 14, 2024 21:29 UTC (Thu)
by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
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A lot of the sockets API needs to be rewritten. It needs to support Happy Eyeballs, it needs to expose the DNS data explicitly (TXT queries, etc.), it needs to be able to deal with changing/multiple addresses for the bound sockets, etc.
Backwards compatibility at any cost?
It kinda is...