ipv6.7: SOL_IPV6 and other SOL_* options socket are not portable

See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=472447

Reported-by: David Madore <david.madore@ens.fr>
Signed-off-by: Stéphane Aulery <saulery@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Stéphane Aulery 2015-03-09 14:04:53 +01:00 committed by Michael Kerrisk
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@ -393,6 +393,18 @@ Programs that assume that all address types can be stored safely in a
need to be changed to use
.I struct sockaddr_storage
for that instead.
.PP
.BR SOL_IP ,
.BR SOL_IPV6 ,
.B SOL_ICMPV6
and other
.BR SOL_ *
socket options are not portable
variants of
.BR IPPROTO_ *.
For more information, see
.BR ip (7),
glibc and kernel headers.
.SH BUGS
The IPv6 extended API as in RFC\ 2292 is currently only partly
implemented;