Backwards compatibility at any cost?

Posted Nov 14, 2024 21:29 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: Backwards compatibility at any cost? by smurf
Parent article: The trouble with struct sockaddr's fake flexible array

It kinda is...

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.