Thanks, you are correct. The sa_len field should be removed (as SUS
implementations are not required to provide it).
These problems will be fixed in the next release.
--- Dave
On 25 May 2002, Enrico Scholz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> lib/unix.h declares
>
> | struct sockaddr {
> | u_char sa_len; /* total length */
> | u_char sa_family; /* address family */
> ~~~~~~
>
> but SUSv3 suggests in [1] a declaration like
>
> | struct sockaddr {
> | u_char sa_len; /* total length */
> | sa_family_t sa_family; /* address family */
>
> I am not sure about the handling of 'sa_len'; this attribute is neither
> mentioned in SUSv3 nor used by the GNU glibc and dietlibc.
>
>
> Another conflict is caused by select(); SUSv3 allows the timeout to be
> NULL, but the @null@ flags is missing in unix.h:
>
> | select (..., fd_set /*@null@*/ *e, struct timeval *t)
> ~~~
>
>
>
> Enrico
>
> Footnotes:
> [1] http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/basedefs/sys/socket.h.html
>
>
>
