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Changes for version 2.031 - 2021-01-05

  • CHANGES
    • Warn about truncation of out-of-range port numbers in pack_sockaddr_in*
  • BUGFIXES
    • Avoid size warnings in leftshift operator (RT129217)
    • Don't wrap the now-deprecated addrinfo IDN constants ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES (RT129660)
    • Skip the socketpair AF_UNIX+SOCK_DGRAM tests if the OS claims them to be unsupported (RT132946)
    • Prefer getaddrinfo() to implement inet_aton() because the alternative gethostbyname() has thread races (RT129189)

Modules

networking constants and support functions