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	Manuel Guerrero on Sun, 4 May 2008 03:44:25 +0200)
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DT_SOCK was added in 2001 without comment about that issue.  I suspect
that simply removing DT_SOCK is safe enough, and certainly I'd rather
fix packages that assume DT_SOCK without testing it, than packages
that test for DT_SOCK and assume sockets.