> * Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-10-12 22:42:34 +0200]:
>
> On Oct 12 15:17, Sam Steingold wrote:
>> cyswin/socket.h:
>>
>> struct msghdr
>> {
>> void * msg_name; /* Socket name */
>> int msg_namelen; /* Length of name */
>> struct iovec * msg_iov; /* Data blocks */
>> int msg_iovlen; /* Number of blocks */
>> void * msg_accrights; /* Per protocol magic (eg BSD file
>> descriptor passing) */
>> int msg_accrightslen; /* Length of rights list */
>> };
>
> This is the so called "older" implementation of struct msghdr as
> defined up to 4.2BSD. Since it's quite useless so far and since
I am not sure I quite understand what you mean by useless.
is cygwin implementation somehow deficient?
> applications using this structure should accomodate the old
> implementation anyway, I don't see a good reason to change this right
> now.
the only reason applications have to accommodate the old implementation
is that some unixes still stick with it.
if you switch to the posix msghdr, I, for one, would not have to
accomodate the old implementation.
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