Re: Stats Collector Error 7.4beta1 and 7.4beta2

Jan Wieck wrote:
> > For IPv6 you could do it with a memcmp on the sin6_addr part, and
> > put it inside an #ifdef HAVE_IPV6.
> > 
> > If you want to write code to compare 2 addresses, please make it
> > a general function and place it in ip.c.
> > 
> > Anyway, I'm happy with the current use of recv().
> 
> I disagree here. The clean and secure way is still to do *some* check 
> (because we carefully don't assume that all OS's behave like some 
> manpages happen to agree to). The performant way is to do it with 

If the OS behavior doesn't match the man page, can't we just call that
an OS bug?

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