Subject: Re: lib/34168: getnameinfo prototype doesn't match SUS3
To: None <lib-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: Matthias Drochner <M.Drochner@fz-juelich.de>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 08/09/2006 14:00:14
The following reply was made to PR lib/34168; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Matthias Drochner <M.Drochner@fz-juelich.de>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: lib-bug-people@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@NetBSD.org,
netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: lib/34168: getnameinfo prototype doesn't match SUS3
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 15:59:27 +0200
lha@NetBSD.org said:
> nodelen and servicelen are socklen_t
This looks like a bug or at least an inconsistency in SUSv3.
node and service are strings, not sockaddr or so.
RFC2553 says "size_t", as does every other OS I know.
> Are the ABI problems
Yes, on 64-bit systems.
> in changing this ?
I wouldn't bother.
best regards
Matthias