Re: konqueror 3.1 + ipv6

[Marc Espie <espie@nerim.net>]

On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 07:00:47AM -0600, Todd T. Fries wrote:
> As itojun and I discussed, the lookup routines in the kdelibs are quite
> wrong in their separation of ipv6 and ipv4.  It should be 'transparent'
> and if necessary allow disabling of one or the other, but for a given
> name, should try try all addresses, ipv6 and ipv4, for each name, in
> the order 'all ipv6' ... 'all ipv4' .. which is what our libc does.
> Unfortunately they think they know better and use c++ to make separate
> handling of ipv6 and ipv4 ;-(
The problem is that our getaddrinfo is not thread-safe, and that the
roll-your-own one in kde is slightly bogus. Choose one evil... either
non working knode, or bogus IPv6.

Obviously, no-one cares about IPv6, or we would have a thread-safe
getaddrinfo since two years ago...