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Subject: RE: sunrpc librairie
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 12:00:12 -0400
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> Hello,
> 
>     i'm trying to port a program using rpc calls to cygwin. 
> But when i 
> compiled using the headers from the sunrpc package i 
> discovered that in 
> clnt.h all the arguments of functions are in commentary:
> 
> /*
>  * Print why creation failed
>  */
> void clnt_pcreateerror(/* char *msg */);    /* stderr */
> char *clnt_spcreateerror(/* char *msg */);    /* string */

Bertrand,

  These are old source files - they were written using K&R C
(as opposed to ANSI C).  You can read:

  http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/autobook/autobook_51.html

...if you're interested in a discussion of the differences
between the two dialects.

-Samrobb

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