[Swan-dev] udpfromto()
D. Hugh Redelmeier
hugh at mimosa.com
Thu Feb 20 22:19:34 UTC 2020
| New commits:
| commit 4b6ae4c757c85bbca12e048ab9eec7f7cce586b0
| Author: Andrew Cagney <cagney at gnu.org>
| Date: Thu Feb 20 16:31:28 2020 -0500
|
| server: delete udpfromto.[hc]
|
| It was added in 2005 (I suspect to support ::/500) with the comment:
|
| we do not do anything with *to* addresses yet... we will.
|
| It's now 2020 and we still don't do anything with the TO address.
| Since the code is IPv4 only (and annoyingly LGPL instead of GPL) I've
| removed it.
Pre-historical note:
All sockets were bound to a paricular IP address and port. So "to" is
known based on the socket. I don't see why it needs to come from
udpfromto.
Paul and others have suggested binding sockets to 0.0.0.0. I don't
think that that has happened yet. When it does, something like
udpfromto might be more interesting. Or it might not.
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