inet string functions

[Shaun Jackman]

On 6/28/06, Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn@redhat.com> wrote:
> Are such net functions generally useful to platforms that don't have
> inet_addr and friends or is this something that Cygwin and RTEMS would
> want to share?

These functions are useful to me because creating a libgloss for an
arbitrary system call interface, such as Linux, is straight forward,
whereas adding functions that are best provided by libc is more
difficult.

> I continue to stress that if you add arm support to libc/sys/arm, such
> functions are automatically provided and you don't have a piece-meal
> solution that only supports an arbitrary subset of applications.  We
> already have the EL/IX standard.

I'm not sure I understand. Did you perhaps mean libc/sys/linux/machine/arm?

i386-pc-linux-newlib is a little odd in that it requires both Linux
headers and GNU libc headers to compile. I prefer arm-elf
(gloss-linux) because it stands on its own.

For a function that is system independent, such as inet_addr, I see no
reason why this function should have been added to a system specific
directory, sys/linux in this case, rather than a generic directory
that all targets can share.

Cheers,
Shaun