ipv6 is craptacular. When they added this, they were drunk. struct sockaddr_in6 doesn't fit in struct sockaddr. This is just... yeah.
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This is only a problem for people who insist on misusing the API because that's how a wrong tutorial said to do it 25 years ago...
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Also Linux making the space portion only 14 bytes was real futureproof
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It would be interesting to see the history of why sa_data[] even existed. It should never be used, probably should never have been there.
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