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Re: vnc and lwip


On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 13:39, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 08:16:52PM +0100, Jonathan Larmour wrote:
> > Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > >On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 06:33:55PM +0300, Jani Monoses wrote:
> > >
> > >>Since lwip has a network.h header for compatibility with the other stacks
> > >>this can be applied.Will do so if nobody objects.
> > 
>  
> > Personally I dislike <network.h> when the new POSIX standard has a 
> > standardised layout for the BSD sockets API. i.e. <sys/socket.h> etc.
> 
> network.h is not normal, but it does sort out the macro magic needed
> to get the header files to compile correctly. I think thats why Gary
> decided to invent it.

Exactly, but with the new [FreeBSD] stack this is not so important.
It does still provide some useful stuff, including prototypes for
non-standard functions.

-- 
Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
MLB Associates


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