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authorwtc%netscape.com <devnull@localhost>2003-02-28 02:23:15 +0000
committerwtc%netscape.com <devnull@localhost>2003-02-28 02:23:15 +0000
commit031797f4a5fa2fb97ecb5dc91c6894d533b35559 (patch)
tree4d6c3bf84f51bfdeba4441de9a3a661df417ad0f
parente77655ec2fdc1eb5ef95a87c74fad2e6da05a155 (diff)
downloadnspr-hg-031797f4a5fa2fb97ecb5dc91c6894d533b35559.tar.gz
Added a comment.
-rw-r--r--pr/src/pthreads/ptio.c6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pr/src/pthreads/ptio.c b/pr/src/pthreads/ptio.c
index deef0973..8267148b 100644
--- a/pr/src/pthreads/ptio.c
+++ b/pr/src/pthreads/ptio.c
@@ -3374,6 +3374,12 @@ PR_IMPLEMENT(PRBool) _pr_test_ipv6_socket()
{
PRInt32 osfd;
+ /*
+ * HP-UX only: HP-UX IPv6 Porting Guide (dated February 2001)
+ * suggests that we call open("/dev/ip6", O_RDWR) to determine
+ * whether IPv6 APIs and the IPv6 stack are on the system.
+ * Our portable test below seems to work fine, so I am using it.
+ */
osfd = socket(AF_INET6, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
if (osfd != -1) {
close(osfd);