From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 24 04:06:50 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9CD3106566C for ; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 04:06:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsdlists@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vw0-f54.google.com (mail-vw0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D19F8FC1D for ; Thu, 24 Jun 2010 04:06:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws13 with SMTP id 13so1727513vws.13 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:06:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=car/6NgOy7gdk2IBAnaLeRuaqtP0onpTR9A+Y1svRG4=; b=WtdooV9iRL0LtYzViS8jGNioaB1L/ggZkt5jagcrGoLQfl0Dg1l11Fd4Sw+G2mEXOe zgNIIPckk5m073Mye730No21nkWRpoiywKWkusHoUrnwzNPjDtvSNeKV8rkbCOmLG0kt ZhbftGAy/PZARPPlry7Lmmlu7c3W5mXkKB6Zg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=jbP/b7EFbaH72bMGDwTnAkh/SG6eG8vTulR3R3AKMYRHDEKVqa1TUeV9oF5imYo8oo 8O7BA6WcqSaE9+aWHjkFuu8E69QkLIiS/falCXZfrB4eLOmqMVIItUizv7nsSF5qb8r/ PqG0ylffXqaCy/1scNlvuuU4S9J0doSX9z8BY= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.224.96.28 with SMTP id f28mr5626632qan.169.1277350577865; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 20:36:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.224.54.137 with HTTP; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 20:36:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <20100622221228.GA93249@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <20100623232402.X45536@delplex.bde.org> <9C936FEB-4858-4D8D-89CC-182EA3A80365@lakerest.net> <20100623171222.GA7981@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <4C226354.80601@elischer.org> Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 23:36:17 -0400 Message-ID: From: Bob Johnson To: net@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Subject: Re: Observations from an old timer playing with 64 bit numbers... X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 04:06:50 -0000 On 6/23/10, Randall Stewart wrote: > Then I would strongly suggest you go fix the manual page for ntohl/ > ntohs and > point people to the be64toh() functions... then people would NOT be > ignorant. > > The problem is there is NO clue in the system... Already done, at least in 7.2. But it refers you to them under the alias byteorder(9). - Bob -- -- Bob Johnson fbsdlists@gmail.com