On Oct 12 15:17, Sam Steingold wrote:
> cyswin/socket.h:
> 
> struct msghdr
> {
>       void    *       msg_name;       /* Socket name                  */
>       int             msg_namelen;    /* Length of name               */
>       struct iovec *  msg_iov;        /* Data blocks                  */
>       int             msg_iovlen;     /* Number of blocks             */
>       void    *       msg_accrights;  /* Per protocol magic (eg BSD file 
> descriptor passing) */
>       int             msg_accrightslen;       /* Length of rights list */
> };

This is the so called "older" implementation of struct msghdr as defined
up to 4.2BSD.  Since it's quite useless so far and since applications
using this structure should accomodate the old implementation anyway,
I don't see a good reason to change this right now.


Corinna

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