Subject: Re: inet_makeaddr(), u_long, _POSIX_SOURCE macro
To: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
From: Klaus Klein <kleink@reziprozitaet.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/07/2003 00:30:10
Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com> writes:

> On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 10:37:21AM +0100, Jaromir Dolecek wrote:
> 
> [...]
>  > inet_makeaddr() is not guarded by _POSIX_SOURCE, so the compile
>  > fails even when the program doesn't use inet_makeaddr().
> 
> Right, the header it is declared in is not a POSIX header, AFAIK.

It is, in a way. :-) When I revised the header it had not been folded
back into a common POSIX issue, and I chose XNS5.2 to start with.  In
the meantime it did make its way into POSIX-2001, but inet_makeaddr()
is an interface that didn't.

So it seems I need to revisit this. :-)


- Klaus