[mrtg-developers] Re: perl compatibity

[Simon Leinen]

I don't like this change too much (and it's a change to my code):

> --- SNMP_Session.pm	Wed Jun 18 15:37:10 2003
> +++ SNMP_Session.pm-patched	Wed Jun 18 15:48:19 2003
> @@ -124,7 +124,13 @@
>      if (eval {require Socket6;} &&
>  	eval {require IO::Socket::INET6; IO::Socket::INET6->VERSION("1.26");}) {
>  	import Socket6;
> +
> +	# Disable strict subs to stop old versions of perl from
> +	# complaining about AF_INET6 when Socket6 is not available
> +	no strict "subs";
>  	$ipv6_addr_len = length(pack_sockaddr_in6(161, inet_pton(AF_INET6, "::1")));
> +	use strict "subs";
> +
>  	$SNMP_Session::ipv6available = 1;
>      }
>  }

Why don't you simply write "AF_INET6()" instead of "AF_INET6"?

Doesn't that work on all versions?
-- 
Simon.

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