Rich Felker
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this flag is notoriously under-/mis-specified, and in the past it was implemented as a nop, essentially considering the absence of a loopback interface with 127.0.0.1 and ::1 addresses an unsupported configuration. however, common real-world container environments omit IPv6 support (even for the network-namespaced loopback interface), and some kernels omit IPv6 support entirely. future systems on the other hand might omit IPv4 entirely. treat these as supported configurations and suppress results of the unconfigured/unsupported address families when AI_ADDRCONFIG is requested. use routability of the loopback address to make the determination; unlike other implementations, we do not exclude loopback from the "an address is configured" condition, since there is no basis in the specification for such exclusion. obtaining a result with AI_ADDRCONFIG does not imply routability of the result, and applications must still be able to cope with unroutable results even if they pass AI_ADDRCONFIG.
musl libc
musl, pronounced like the word "mussel", is an MIT-licensed
implementation of the standard C library targetting the Linux syscall
API, suitable for use in a wide range of deployment environments. musl
offers efficient static and dynamic linking support, lightweight code
and low runtime overhead, strong fail-safe guarantees under correct
usage, and correctness in the sense of standards conformance and
safety. musl is built on the principle that these goals are best
achieved through simple code that is easy to understand and maintain.
The 1.1 release series for musl features coverage for all interfaces
defined in ISO C99 and POSIX 2008 base, along with a number of
non-standardized interfaces for compatibility with Linux, BSD, and
glibc functionality.
For basic installation instructions, see the included INSTALL file.
Information on full musl-targeted compiler toolchains, system
bootstrapping, and Linux distributions built on musl can be found on
the project website:
http://www.musl-libc.org/