Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 10:17:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> To: Valentin Nechayev <netch@segfault.kiev.ua> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sin_zero & bind problems Message-ID: <200110131717.f9DHHLR43887@earth.backplane.com> References: <20011013135842.A415@iv.nn.kiev.ua>
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:The following was initially formatted as PR, but I suppose it is reasonable
:to discuss first here. There were some vague mentions that sin_zero field
:of struct sockaddr_in may be used in future for some extensions; but this
:future is already expired;) without any real step.
:If the verdict will be to keep current behavior, it should be strictly
:documented to remove this permanent rake field.
:
:>Description:
:
:If bind() syscall is called for PF_INET socket with address another than
:INADDR_ANY, and sin_zero field in addr parameter is not filled with
:...
Nobody in their right mind uses a struct sockaddr_in or any other
struct sock* type of structure without zeroing it first. I suppose
we can document that in the man pages, but we certainly should not go
hacking up the kernel code to work around bad programmers.
-Matt
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