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Alright, I'm looking at this bug report about QEMU still using obsolete IPv4 functions: gethostbyname, inet_aton, and inet_ntoa. The user wants to convert these to their IPv6 counterparts.
First, I need to determine whether this issue falls under user-mode or system-mode in the context of QEMU. System-mode typically involves higher privileges, peripherals, devices, and operating systems. User-mode issues usually relate to applications running on top of the OS without needing kernel-level access.
QEMU is a virtualization tool that can run in both modes. However, the functions mentioned here are standard socket library functions used for network operations. These functions don't require kernel privileges; they're part of user-space networking code.
So, if QEMU is using these functions in its user-mode components (like handling network configurations or emulating network devices), it's a user-mode issue. If it were dealing with lower-level device drivers or kernel modules, it might be system-mode. But since the report mentions converting to IPv6 equivalents without any mention of hardware or kernel interactions, it's more about application-level code.
Therefore, this bug is related to user-mode operations within QEMU.
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