Re: Cleaning up the INET/CIDR mess

From: Andrew - Supernews <andrew+nonews(at)supernews(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Cleaning up the INET/CIDR mess
Date: 2006-01-25 23:42:51
Message-ID: slrndtg37r.d6t.andrew+nonews@atlantis.supernews.net
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On 2006-01-25, Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> wrote:
> I've reported the bug in the one instance I've found.
> What have you found with this omission?
>
> It would be passing strange since most software just passes the text to
> inet_aton or inet_pton.

STANDARDS
The inet_ntop() and inet_pton() functions conform to X/Open Networking
Services Issue 5.2 (``XNS5.2''). Note that inet_pton() does not accept
1-, 2-, or 3-part dotted addresses; all four parts must be specified and
are interpreted only as decimal values. This is a narrower input set
than that accepted by inet_aton().

The spec is quite explicit that inet_pton is not expected to accept the
abbreviated forms or any non-decimal values.

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