From owner-freebsd-net Wed Nov 13 11:43:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC1BC37B401 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 11:43:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D3FD43E4A for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 11:43:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.12.3/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gADJhBen066436 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK); Wed, 13 Nov 2002 14:43:11 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.12.3/8.12.5/Submit) id gADJhAeF066433; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 14:43:10 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 14:43:10 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200211131943.gADJhAeF066433@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Michael Bretterklieber Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: struct sockaddr_in - question In-Reply-To: <3DD1FAAC.6060707@inode.at> References: <3DD1FAAC.6060707@inode.at> Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org < said: > My question is do I realy need to fill this? Or is it there just for > future use? That depends on what you will be using the length for. Some interfaces require that it be present; other interfaces (e.g., those system calls which already take a separate length argument) do not. -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message