From: Michael Stapelberg <michael@stapelberg.de>
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:23:39 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Don’t perror("connect") when there most likely is no IPv6 connectivity
X-Git-Tag: 2.0~42
X-Git-Url: https://git.sur5r.net/?p=i3%2Fi3status;a=commitdiff_plain;h=94911d4cc3741df95fef45e0cceed1ebc311404b

Don’t perror("connect") when there most likely is no IPv6 connectivity
---

diff --git a/src/get_ipv6_addr.c b/src/get_ipv6_addr.c
index 2fd978b..aa09d3a 100644
--- a/src/get_ipv6_addr.c
+++ b/src/get_ipv6_addr.c
@@ -41,7 +41,10 @@ const char *get_ipv6_addr() {
                  * it saves the local address with which packets would
                  * be sent to the destination. */
                 if (connect(fd, resp->ai_addr, resp->ai_addrlen) == -1) {
-                        perror("connect()");
+                        /* We don’t display the error here because most
+                         * likely, there just is no IPv6 connectivity.
+                         * Thus, don’t spam the user’s console but just
+                         * try the next address. */
                         (void)close(fd);
                         continue;
                 }