(usagi-users 03293) Re: Why can't I use getaddrinfo() with a link-scoped address?

YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 <[email protected]> Fri, 08 Apr 2005 18:05:48 +0900 (JST)

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In article <[email protected]> (at Thu, 7 Apr 2005 22:46:38 -0700 (PDT)), Patrick Lam <[email protected]> says:

> I am trying to use getaddrinfo() to get the link-local
> interface info.  However, it always complains that:
:
> Am I not supposed to use getaddrinfo() with a
> link-scoped address?

Yes, you are, and for connect()/bind() usage, you need to specify scope-id;
e.g. fe80::1%eth0

--yoshfuji