[fpc-pascal] FPC and IPv6, and BSD

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

I'm trying to write a simple finger daemon, capable of both IP4 and IP6. 
At present it's using an unprivileged socket so as to avoid problems on 
unix platforms.

I appear to be having problems at the bind() call for IP6 (returns -1), 
which I suspect is down to my incomplete understanding of the new 
sockaddr_in6 structure. Has anybody done this successfully?

As a subsidiary question: noting that a client has to be aware of this:

   sockaddr_in6 = packed Record
     {$ifdef SOCK_HAS_SINLEN}  // as per RFC 2553
       sin6_len    : cuint8;
     {$endif}
     sin6_family   : sa_family_t;
..

so that it initialises the sin6_len field if present (some BSD 
variants?), does it see that conditional automatically if defined? 
Otherwise how best to do it?

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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