From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 15:04:26 GMT
Subject: Re: cygwin-latest: compile errors related to sockaddr_storage, dirent->d_type and dirent->d_ino
Message-ID: <81b0412b0601190704j617205c4g8a66a55638b5a6c4@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060119125155.GZ28365@pasky.or.cz>

On 1/19/06, Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> wrote:
> Dear diary, on Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 02:47:00PM CET, I got a letter
> where Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> said that...
> > For reasons unknown, cygwin decided to use our sockaddr_storage.
> > As it is redefined to sockaddr_in it'd cause compilation errors in
> > cygwin headers. Fixed by first patch, which uses a more git-related
> > name (can we claim rights for the symbol, being first to use it? :-)
>
> Huh? "Our"? See RFC 2553 and e.g.:
>
>         http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/sys/socket.h.html
>
> You have no business meddling with this identifier except working around
> platforms which do not support it, but then do not complain that things
> break when the platforms actually start supporting it. ;-)

That will remind me to consult the specs first.