From owner-freebsd-net Tue Nov 12 23:12:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEEA137B401 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 23:12:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.inode.at (smtp-01.inode.at [62.99.194.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6FA843E4A for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 23:12:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mbretter@inode.at) Received: from line-c-197.adsl-dynamic.inode.at ([62.99.151.197]:1066 helo=inode.at) by smtp.inode.at with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 18BrhW-0005AX-00 for freebsd-net@freebsd.org; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 08:12:38 +0100 Message-ID: <3DD1FAAC.6060707@inode.at> Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 08:09:32 +0100 From: Michael Bretterklieber User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016 X-Accept-Language: de-at, de-de, de, en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: struct sockaddr_in - question Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, the struct sockaddr_in (netinet/in.h) of FreeBSD has the member sin_len, but other OS's don't have this structure-member. The sockaddr_in structure declared on many systems like this: struct sockkaddr_in { short int sin_family; unsigned short int sin_port; struct in_addr sin_addr; } My question is do I realy need to fill this? Or is it there just for future use? bye, -- ------------------------------- ---------------------------------- Michael Bretterklieber - Michael.Bretterklieber@jawa.at JAWA Management Software GmbH - http://www.jawa.at Liebenauer Hauptstr. 200 -------------- privat ------------ A-8041 GRAZ GSM: ++43-(0)676-93 96 698 Tel: ++43-(0)316-403274-12 E-mail: mbretter@inode.at Fax: ++43-(0)316-403274-10 http://www.inode.at/mbretter ------------------------------- ---------------------------------- "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message