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Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 15:45:16 +0100
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9=20M=F8ller?= Fonseca <fonseca AT mip DOT sdu DOT dk>
Organization: MIP, University of Southern Denmark
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Subject: prototype of bind in sys/socket.h
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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.

Cheers,
René

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