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Re:iOS Supporting IPv6-Only Networks by eloy on Thursday May 05, 2016 @12:14PM (#11637367)
Out of curiosity, why would anyone use Unix or BSD sockets on iOS if Apple provides way better APIs?
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Re:iOS Supporting IPv6-Only Networks by Negative1 on Thursday May 05, 2016 @05:22PM (#11639752)
Think game engines or legacy C++ projects there were ported to the platform and already have their own network implementation.
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Re:iOS Supporting IPv6-Only Networks by mosburger on Thursday May 05, 2016 @12:19PM (#11637417)
Maybe familiarity? Porting existing UNIX code to iOS (seems like that'd be pretty rare)?
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Re:iOS Supporting IPv6-Only Networks by eloy on Thursday May 05, 2016 @12:23PM (#11637465)
Hmm, good point. I guess that most of the apps that use BSD/Unix sockets are libraries then.
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