google / google/gvisor

tcpip.Address: IPv4 and IPv6 "ANY" are indistinguishable

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area: networking revived type: bug
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Description

Both IPv4 and IPv6 "ANY" are modeled by the empty string, which means it is impossible to tell from outside of the `package tcpip`'s interfaces if such "ANY" addresses are IPv4 or IPv6.

This is a generalization of #1495.

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