Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 03:44:20 +0900 From: Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume@FreeBSD.org> To: arch@FreeBSD.org, standards@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: [CFR] correct type of addrinfo.ai_addrlen and netent.n_net Message-ID: <ygemzrcgnej.wl%ume@mahoroba.org>
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Hi,
The ai_addrlen of a struct addrinfo used to be a size_t, per RFC 2553.
In XNS5.2, and subsequently in POSIX-2001 and RFC 3493, it was changed
to a socklen_t.
And, the n_net of a struct netent used to be an unsigned long integer.
In XNS5, and subsequently in POSIX-2001, it was changed to an
uint32_t.
I made a patch to correct these:
http://www.imasy.or.jp/~ume/FreeBSD/netdb.h-padding.diff
To accomodate for this while preserving ABI compatibility with the old
interface, we need to prepend or append 32 bits of padding, depending
on the (LP64) architecture's endianness. I wish to delete these
padding before 6.0-RELEASE.
Please review it.
Sincerely,
--
Hajimu UMEMOTO @ Internet Mutual Aid Society Yokohama, Japan
ume@mahoroba.org ume@{,jp.}FreeBSD.org
http://www.imasy.org/~ume/
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