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		wbl on Dec 7, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable That mistake was already baked in to the sockaddr_t ABI.

p_l on Dec 8, 2022 [–]

BSD Sockets were one giant mistake of not enough abstraction and leaky implementation internals like that.

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