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Re: socklen_t type
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 22:23:30 +0200
- Subject: Re: socklen_t type
- References: <4E330A4C.90706@redhat.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Jul 29 13:30, Eric Blake wrote:
> Is there any specific reason why socklen_t on cygwin is int instead
> of uint32_t, like it is on Linux?
Other than history? No, I don't think so. But I also don't think
it's worth the effort. All the underlying Windows functions typically
use int rather than uint32_t, and even the Linux man page states:
The optlen argument of getsockopt() and setsockopt() is in reality an
int [*] (and this is what 4.x BSD and libc4 and libc5 have). Some
POSIX confusion resulted in the present socklen_t, also used by glibc.
Corinna
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