From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 15 12:50:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA15247 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 15 Nov 1996 12:50:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.crl.com (mail.crl.com [165.113.1.22]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA15242 for ; Fri, 15 Nov 1996 12:50:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from alpha.Xerox.COM by mail.crl.com with SMTP id AA21468 (5.65c/IDA-1.5 for ); Fri, 15 Nov 1996 12:51:46 -0800 Received: from crevenia.parc.xerox.com ([13.2.116.11]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <16276(6)>; Fri, 15 Nov 1996 12:44:24 PST Received: by crevenia.parc.xerox.com id <177557>; Fri, 15 Nov 1996 12:44:12 -0800 From: Bill Fenner To: fenner@parc.xerox.com, jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com Subject: Re: Sockets question... Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Message-Id: <96Nov15.124412pst.177557@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 12:44:03 PST Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >Actually... I usually found it easier to do the following. And that's what Terry's complaining about; if you have alignment requirements when writing big_ugly->yadda, those alignment requirements might not be met by the read() inside of xread(). Bill