Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 16:43:29 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: prototype of bind in sys/socket.h Message-ID: <20010109164329.B4141@cobold.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <3A5B23FC.59E103E4@mip.sdu.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A5B23FC.59E103E4@mip.sdu.dk>; from fonseca@mip.sdu.dk on Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 03:45:16PM +0100 On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 03:45:16PM +0100, René Møller Fonseca wrote: > Hi, > > The prototype of bind in /usr/include/sys/socket.h is: > int bind (int, struct sockaddr *__my_addr, int __addrlen); > > Without knowing what the standard exactly suggests, I think this should > have been: > int bind (int, const struct sockaddr *__my_addr, int __addrlen); > > bind is not allowed to modify the socket address! The operating systems, > that I have checked, use const in the prototype of bind. You're right. Thanks for the hint. I will change that. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple