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To: "Marty Leisner" <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com>
Subject: Re: sin_len in sockaddr_in? 
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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 18:19:37 -0700
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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: what's going on?  we pass the length in the call anyway..

I beleive that this is a BSD 4.4ism.  I recall that ISO address blocks
were the reason given for this change, but I can't recall for sure why
this was needed when the length is always passed in...

Warner