From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
To: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Subject: Re: cygwin-latest: compile errors related to sockaddr_storage, dirent->d_type and dirent->d_ino
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 16:04:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <81b0412b0601190704j617205c4g8a66a55638b5a6c4@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-19 15:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-18 13:47 cygwin-latest: compile errors related to sockaddr_storage, dirent->d_type and dirent->d_ino Alex Riesen
2006-01-19 5:29 ` Christopher Faylor
2006-01-19 8:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-01-19 16:10 ` Christopher Faylor
2006-01-19 20:34 ` Christopher Faylor
2006-01-19 21:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-19 21:28 ` Christopher Faylor
2006-01-19 21:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-19 21:51 ` Christopher Faylor
2006-01-20 1:13 ` [PATCH] fsck-objects: support platforms without d_ino in struct dirent Junio C Hamano
2006-01-20 3:38 ` Christopher Faylor
2006-01-19 10:42 ` cygwin-latest: compile errors related to sockaddr_storage, dirent->d_type and dirent->d_ino Alex Riesen
2006-01-19 18:31 ` Christopher Faylor
2006-01-19 22:08 ` Alex Riesen
2006-01-19 22:51 ` Christopher Faylor
2006-01-19 12:51 ` Petr Baudis
2006-01-19 15:04 ` Alex Riesen [this message]
2006-01-19 13:00 ` Petr Baudis
2006-01-19 15:07 ` Alex Riesen
2006-01-20 1:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-01-20 13:23 ` Alex Riesen
2006-01-20 1:13 ` [PATCH] DT_UNKNOWN: do not fully trust existence of DT_UNKNOWN Junio C Hamano
2006-01-20 15:01 ` Alex Riesen
2006-01-20 19:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-01-20 21:53 ` Alex Riesen
2006-01-21 8:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-01-23 13:07 ` Alex Riesen
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