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Re: struct msghdr in socket.h is wrong
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 22:42:34 +0200
- Subject: Re: struct msghdr in socket.h is wrong
- References: <ur7aqwno0.fsf@gnu.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Oct 12 15:17, Sam Steingold wrote:
> cyswin/socket.h:
>
> struct msghdr
> {
> void * msg_name; /* Socket name */
> int msg_namelen; /* Length of name */
> struct iovec * msg_iov; /* Data blocks */
> int msg_iovlen; /* Number of blocks */
> void * msg_accrights; /* Per protocol magic (eg BSD file descriptor passing) */
> int msg_accrightslen; /* Length of rights list */
> };
This is the so called "older" implementation of struct msghdr as defined
up to 4.2BSD. Since it's quite useless so far and since applications
using this structure should accomodate the old implementation anyway,
I don't see a good reason to change this right now.
Corinna
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