[gpm] socklen_t handling
Mike Frysinger
vapier@gentoo.org
Mon Jun 2 18:51:20 CEST 2008
On Monday 02 June 2008, Nico Schottelius wrote:
> Mike Frysinger [Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 12:13:07PM -0400]:
> > [socklen_t]
> >
> > ive committed this then to gpm-1 ... configure checks for the socklen_t
> > type and all gpm code assumes socklen_t is available
>
> Thanks for your work, mike!
>
> I am not sure, whether this check
>
> AC_CHECK_TYPE([socklen_t], [unsigned int])
>
> is senseful, as we define socklen_t for us as unsigned int, although we
> should not care about. Thus, if posix changes, gpm breaks.
i dont see how you could make a check that would automatically stay conformant
to a standard ? if the system does not define socklen_t, then there is no
way for us to know what an appropriate size is. we have to default to what
the standard says.
-mike
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