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Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 09:01:06 -0700
From: Arun Sharma <adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org>
To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
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Subject: Re: Fwd: socket.h and _POSIX_SOURCE
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On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 04:39:43PM +0200, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote:
> -On [20000420 20:02], Arun Sharma (adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org) wrote:
> >Comments ?
> >
> >$ cat test.c
> >#include <sys/types.h>
> >#include <sys/socket.h>
> >$ cc -D_POSIX_SOURCE -c test.c
> >In file included from test.c:2:
> >/usr/include/sys/socket.h:47: syntax error before `sa_family_t'
> >/usr/include/sys/socket.h:47: warning: data definition has no type or storage
> >  class
> 
> sys/socket.h declares sa_family_t as a u_char.
> 
> If we look at sys/types.h we see:
> 
> #ifndef _POSIX_SOURCE
> typedef unsigned char   u_char;
> [snip]
> #endif
> 
> Which combined with D_POSIX_SOURCE causes [logical] problems.

Would it be fair to say this is a (POSIX non-compliance) bug in the
header files ?

	-Arun


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