[Python-Dev] inet_addr usage in Modules/socketmodule.c?

[Martin v. Loewis]

Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> writes:

> Your thoughts?

I'd agree that inet_aton should be use if available; autoconf is
capable of finding that out. I do not think that the platform
INADDR_NONE should be changed if available. On this specific platform,
there seems to be a bug: INADDR_NONE is 0xffffffff, yet inet_addr
returns -1. According to my Linux manpage, inet_addr ought to return
INADDR_NONE on failure, so that should be defined as (or the return
value of inet_addr should be different).

I guess most people share the problem of having no access to an SX
installation, so if anything is done about this, the original poster
would have to come up with a patch.

Regards,
Martin