Dear diary, on Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 02:47:00PM CET, I got a letter where Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> said that... > For reasons unknown, cygwin decided to use our sockaddr_storage. > As it is redefined to sockaddr_in it'd cause compilation errors in > cygwin headers. Fixed by first patch, which uses a more git-related > name (can we claim rights for the symbol, being first to use it? :-) Huh? "Our"? See RFC 2553 and e.g.: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/sys/socket.h.html You have no business meddling with this identifier except working around platforms which do not support it, but then do not complain that things break when the platforms actually start supporting it. ;-) -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ Of the 3 great composers Mozart tells us what it's like to be human, Beethoven tells us what it's like to be Beethoven and Bach tells us what it's like to be the universe. -- Douglas Adams - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Thu Jan 19 23:51:12 2006
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