From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 30 14:28:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA10221 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 30 Nov 1997 14:28:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from anlsun.ebr.anlw.anl.gov (anlsun.ebr.anlw.anl.gov [141.221.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id OAA10211 for ; Sun, 30 Nov 1997 14:28:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cmott@srv.net) Received: from darkstar.home (dialin1.anlw.anl.gov [141.221.254.101]) by anlsun.ebr.anlw.anl.gov (8.6.11/8.6.11) with SMTP id PAA13769 for ; Sun, 30 Nov 1997 15:28:21 -0700 Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 15:27:48 -0700 (MST) From: Charles Mott X-Sender: cmott@darkstar.home To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: sa_len field of struct sockaddr Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm discovering that the sa_len field of the sockaddr structure is not too portable across different Unix operating systems (OSF1 v4.0 optionally uses it; Linux and SunOS are oblivious to it). I am currently puzzling over how to use autoconf. If anyone has an GNU configure method or something else for dealing with this, I would be curious to see it. Charles Mott