From: teor (Tim Wilson-Brown) <teor2345@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 12:30:25 +0000 (+1100)
Subject: Update comments in get_interface_addresses_ioctl
X-Git-Tag: tor-0.2.8.1-alpha~229^2
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2c151d8082d9a7969e8775c410601f308d0011ab;p=thirdparty%2Ftor.git

Update comments in get_interface_addresses_ioctl

Comment-only change noting platforms that can return IPv6
addresses from SIOCGIFCONF (or SIOCGLIFCONF).
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diff --git a/src/common/address.c b/src/common/address.c
index cfa8fd1dca..aef229b02c 100644
--- a/src/common/address.c
+++ b/src/common/address.c
@@ -1469,7 +1469,8 @@ get_interface_addresses_ioctl(int severity)
   int fd;
   smartlist_t *result = NULL;
 
-  /* This interface, AFAICT, only supports AF_INET addresses */
+  /* This interface, AFAICT, only supports AF_INET addresses,
+   * except on AIX. For Solaris, we could use SIOCGLIFCONF. */
   fd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0);
   if (fd < 0) {
     tor_log(severity, LD_NET, "socket failed: %s", strerror(errno));