Re: How is 0.0.0.0 handled in Wine?

[Erich Hoover]

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 11:10 PM, Austin English wrote:
> ...
> > I'm not sure Wine should be a special case if it's not breaking apps.
>
> While that's arguable , Putty can give a demonstratable corner case
> that has behavior different on Windows than on Wine, and it's entirely
> likely that there's some other app depending on that behavior that we
> *don't* know about.
>
> --
> -Austin

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.

Erich Hoover
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