wrong htons() used?

Richard Earnshaw rearnsha@arm.com
Fri Oct 22 09:11:00 GMT 1999


>    Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 16:26:01 +0100
>    From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
> 
>    > I thing the best option is to rename rdi-share/endian.h so that it
>    > doesn't shadow /usr/include/endian.h.  rdi-share/endian.h doesn't
>    > appeart to be some strictly local stuff and not intented as a
>    > replacement for /usr/include/endian.h.
> 
>    And maybe while they are fixing it they can track down and shoot the glibc 
>    person who put another non-standard header in a standard place...
> 
> I'm not sure but isn't <endian.h> standard on modern BSD?

Not on NetBSD at any rate; it's sys/endian.h and/or machine/endian.h -- 
each brings in the other as required.  Either way it makes the whole 
system much more robust against this sort of grottyness.



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