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by IcePic 78 days ago
Not on all OSes. And it's not all good to have one less socket, there are still issues with people not expecting v4 traffic on a v6-capable socket, like described here:

https://radar.offseq.com/threat/ipv4-mapped-ipv6-addresses-t...

If you want to handle two protocols, it is not unreasonable to use two sockets.