Re: socklen_t

[Simon Josefsson]

Albert Chin <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 01:28:39PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote:
>> Albert Chin <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> > We created the following macro for curl. It's been tested on the
>> > following systems:
>> 
>> Has the copyright been assigned to the FSF?
>
> No. I'd like to see a liberal license with this though. Curl is under
> a very liberal license. We'd like to see other programs use this macro
> for detecting socklen_t as well (lftp has adopted a derivative of it
> and KDE I think has).

This is what M4 macros in gnulib generally use, is it ok?

dnl Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
dnl This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation
dnl gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it,
dnl with or without modifications, as long as this notice is preserved.

> BTW, having socklen_t doesn't mean it's used by some of the networking
> functions. Check this out:
>   http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78238
>   http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg01246.html

Ouch.  I don't think the proposed solution was good, I want to use
"socklen_t" in my code.  I think we should try hard to make that
possible.  I don't want to make my code unreadable to cater to broken
platforms.

However, adapting your M4 code first would solve to problem on several
platforms, and we can return to the HP-UX problem later.  I haven't
encountered that problem on HP-UX myself, so perhaps it doesn't always
happen.

Thanks,
Simon