On 1/19/06, Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> wrote: > 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. ;-) That will remind me to consult the specs first. - 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 Fri Jan 20 02:05:01 2006
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