[ds6-devel] unsupported sock warning

[Mauro Tortonesi]

On Sun, 29 Dec 2002, Chris Leishman wrote:

> In the updated network.c:
>
> if (unsupported_sock_error(errno)) {
> 	/* maybe tell the user that this behaviour is
> 	 * related to a weird implementation of
> 	 * getaddrinfo on his system? */
> 	warn("cannot create the socket: %s", strerror(errno));
> 	errno = 0;
> 	continue;
> }
>
> Is there any need for this warning at all?  We're realised that the
> socket isn't supported on the platform and dealt with it....so why
> bother the user?

you're right.

> If you think we do need it, then perhaps it should be only shown in
> very verbose mode?  And perhaps rewrite it to "cannot create socket
> with family %d, socktype %d and protocol %d"?

i don't know. do you think that we should simply remove the warning or
leave it only in very verbose mode?

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