0004535: please add function to distinguish IPv6 inet_addrs - MantisBT

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0004535

OCaml

OCaml general

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2008-04-16 18:07

2009-09-22 10:45

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ecc

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normal

Severity

feature

Reproducibility

always

Status

acknowledged

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open

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3.10.1

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Summary

0004535: please add function to distinguish IPv6 inet_addrs

Description

Please add a function to the Unix module that allows one to distinguish between IPv4 and IPv6 inet_addrs.

For example, when printing a sockaddr, I would like to print
1.2.3.4:666 for an IPv4 host, but
[::1]:666 for an IPv6 one.
Of course, I can search for ':' in the string returned by string_of_inet_addr, but that's a hack.

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(0005115) dra (reporter) 2009-09-22 10:45	This can already be done by using Unix.domain_of_sockaddr which will return Unix.PF_INET for an IPv4 address or Unix.PF_INET6 for an IPv6 address. However, this is tedious as it requires you to create a socket just to determine the address family of an inet_addr. Both win32unix/unix.ml and unix/unix.ml contain a function called is_inet6_addr which is used in Unix.domain_of_sockaddr - could this function be added to unix.mli in the next release of OCaml?

Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2008-04-16 18:07	ecc	New Issue
2008-09-23 02:51	doligez	Status	new => acknowledged
2009-09-22 10:45	dra	Note Added: 0005115

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