Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 18:01:59 -0700 From: Ed Alley <alley1@llnl.gov> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: sockaddr differences Message-ID: <200008260101.SAA02730@jordan.llnl.gov>
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I have been porting some of my software to freebsd and noticed an
irritating difference. On every platform that my software has
run on the sockaddr structures have had similar members except
for FreeBSD! For instance on all other systems that I have run
on:
struct sockaddr_un {
u_char sun_family;
char sun_path[104];
};
However FreeBSD has:
struct sockaddr_un {
u_char sun_len;
u_char sun_family;
char sun_path[104];
};
This difference introduced some subtle bugs; I really began to
think that I had forgotten how to program.
First Question:
Why is FreeBSD different?
Second Question:
Does anyone know of a simple way that I can
program around this without putting in a
lot of ifdefs in my programs?
Ed Alley
wea@llnl.gov
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