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Date:      Thu, 01 Jul 2004 16:48:57 +0400
From:      Roman Kurakin <rik@cronyx.ru>
To:        Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@recoil.org>
Cc:        freebsd-net@lists.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Packing netgraph structs
Message-ID:  <40E40839.20500@cronyx.ru>
In-Reply-To: <122AE07F-CB5B-11D8-99F8-000A95DA50A6@recoil.org>
References:  <122AE07F-CB5B-11D8-99F8-000A95DA50A6@recoil.org>

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Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:

> I'm creating Netgraph bindings for OCaml in order to play around more 
> easily with various Bluetooth and Ethernet things I'm working on.  
> It's all pretty straightforward except for the problem that the 
> netgraph message structs aren't all packed (e.g. struct ng_mesg).  
> This means that it's very difficult to serialise them in a language 
> other than C.

If this is a problem why can't you make some wrapper that will 
pack/unpack written on C,
which will be a lib for you?

rik

>
> Is there any reason why these aren't packed?  If not, I can submit a 
> diff to make them so.
>
> thanks,
>
> -- 
> Anil Madhavapeddy                                   
> http://anil.recoil.org
> University of Cambridge                            
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk
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