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Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:22:21 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [1.7] cygwin inet_ntop prints IPv6 addresses in upper-case.
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On Mar 27 01:16, lennox AT cs DOT columbia DOT edu wrote:
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> This is fairly superficial, but I noticed that cygwin 1.7's inet_ntop
> function prints hex bytes in IPv6 addresses in upper-case.
> 
> This is inconsistent with what inet_ntop does on every other platform I've
> tested, and a recent Internet-Draft
> <http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-kawamura-ipv6-text-representation-00.txt>
> also recommends printing IPv6 addresses in lower-case, among other reasons
> because upper-case "D" is harder to distinguish visually from "0".

I fixed that in CVS by converting to lower case letters on the fly.  I'm
not sure it's a good idea to change small_sprintf to produce lowercase
hex digits.  Something, somewhere might rely on the letters being
uppercase.


Thanks for the report and the testcase,
Corinna

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