Nmap Development: Re: Any Win32 porting clues?

[doug () hcsw org]

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 11:09:34PM +0200 or thereabouts,  mixter () gmail com wrote:
> Currently, I'm stuck with missing definitions....
>
> ncat\sys_wrap.h(41) : error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'socklen_t'
I think this might help:

http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2007-03/0131.html

Incidentally, socklen_t was kinda a POSIX mistake. From accept(2):

Quoting Linus Torvalds: _Any_ sane library _must_ have "socklen_t" be the same size as int. Anything else breaks any 
BSD socket layer stuff. POSIX initially _did_ make it a size_t, and I (and hopefully others, but obviously not too 
many) complained to them very loudly indeed. Making it a size_t is completely broken, exactly because size_t very 
seldom is the same size as "int" on 64-bit architectures, for example. And it _has_ to be the same size as "int" 
because that's what the BSD socket interface is. Anyway, the POSIX people eventually got a clue, and created 
"socklen_t". They shouldn't have touched it in the first place, but once they did they felt it had to have a named type 
for some unfathomable reason (probably somebody didn't like losing face over having done the original stupid thing, so 
they silently just renamed their blunder).

> (Native
> Windows one of the few things in development I've managed to avoid in
> many years;)
Ah yes, in a perfect world. :)

Best,

Doug

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