Re: [bug-inetutils] plan9 like socket interface

[Simon Josefsson]

address@hidden (Alfred M. Szmidt) writes:

> I've been quite annoyed over how one does sockets on unixoid system
> for sometimes, specially with all the idiosyncrasies of IPv4 vs. IPv6.

In what way?  If you use getaddrinfo properly, you don't have to care a
lot about IPv4 or IPv6 differences in my experiences.  There is a lot of
code in InetUtils that uses old network coding habits though.

> Plan 9 has a quite nice API that is very much agnostic when it comes
> to IPv6, IPv4, ICMP, UDP, TCP, ... etc.  Now, I haven't used it at
> all, and maybe it is not flexible enough for our purpose.  Here is
> what a basic ping might look like,

Personally, I prefer POSIX standard here since people are more familiar
with it.  Further, I would want to know how portably you could implement
the Plan 9 interface before deciding.  If you can't do it portably
(i.e., assume POSIX but no more), I think it is a bad idea.

/Simon