How is 0.0.0.0 handled in Wine?

Kai Blin kai.blin at gmail.com
Tue Jun 9 04:53:29 CDT 2009


On Tuesday 09 June 2009 07:17:58 Austin English wrote:

> > 0.0.0.0 and broadcast packets cause some problems with the newer Command
> > and Conquer games, but the ticket was closed some time ago.  I believe it
> > was decided that since the kernel devs wouldn't change how Linux handles
> > these cases that it would be too much trouble to work around it.
>
> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7929

Rereading this bug tells me that it's
a) not related to 0.0.0.0 being pingable in unix
b) due to programmers abusing the api to get their broadcasts to work
c) not fixable by us without kernel support
d) not going to happen

Cheers,
Kai

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