Re: Status of Mac OS/X ports of git and cogito?

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Sep 11, 2005, 23:43 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0509111642110.3242@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0509111631500.3242@g5.osdl.org>

On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> 
> And the really sad part is that before the standards bodies started
> messing around with it, things really _did_ "just work". There was no 
> question at all about what kind of type to use.

Btw, here's the result of the "documentation":

	dnl check for Unix98 socklen_t
	AC_MSG_CHECKING(for socklen_t)
	AC_TRY_COMPILE([#include <sys/socket.h>
	socklen_t x;
	],[],[AC_MSG_RESULT(yes)],[
	AC_TRY_COMPILE([#include <sys/socket.h>
	int accept (int, struct sockaddr *, size_t *);
	],[],[
	AC_MSG_RESULT(size_t)
	AC_DEFINE(socklen_t,size_t)], [
	AC_MSG_RESULT(int)
	AC_DEFINE(socklen_t,int)])])

isn't that nice? Before the "documentation", you could just use

	int accept(int, struct sockaddr *, int *);

and it would work. EVERYWHERE. No autoconf crap required.

So don't talk to me about documentation. It's pure and unadulterated crap.

		Linus