Function to access the family of a sockaddr

As well as the "it shall work, even if it must be magic" fix for the sockaddr aliasing problems, has any consideration been given to a named function for accessing the sa_family_t fields? inline sa_family_t getsockfam(const struct sockaddr* sa) { sa_family_t fam; memcpy(&fam, (char*)sa + offse

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Function to access the family of a sockaddr

< said: > I don't know if guaranteeing that would break existing implementations > though. It would be fine for Linux and Solaris, because the > sa_family_t field is the first one, so as long as every sockaddr > structure uses the same type for that first field, it's in the common > initial sequen