Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <8389af8b05091922474cdb39f4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 14:47:40 +0900 From: Hiroki Sakagami Reply-To: sakagami@gmail.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: libc header questions In-Reply-To: <20050917085546.GR5555@calimero.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <8389af8b0509162308b57a819@mail.gmail.com> <20050917085546.GR5555@calimero.vinschen.de> X-IsSubscribed: yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id j8K5m7K6009412 On 9/17/05, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Sep 17 15:08, Hiroki Sakagami wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have two questions about libc include headers. > > > > 1. Is there any reason socklen_t is defined as a macro > > instead of typedef in ? > > Is this a problem for you? The reasons are plain historical. I don't > see that converting it to a typedef would add a lot functionality, though. I had a (not-opensourced) package whose autoconf detection of socklen_t failed. But that's a problem of that package. I can live with a macro definition now. > > 2. In , inet_ntop() is not consistent with POSIX. > > > > Cygwin: const char *inet_ntop(int, const void *, char *, size_t); > > POSIX: const char *inet_ntop(int, const void *, char *, socklen_t); > > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/inet_ntop.html > > > > Is this going to be fixed in the future version? > > I've changed this in CVS. Thanks for the hint. OK, thanks. -- Hiroki Sakagami -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/