- From: Marc Boucher <marc+sctp AT mbsi.ca>
- To: discussion AT sctp.de
- Subject: Re: [SCTP-Discussion] Strings vs. Sockunion (was: Is the timer_list initialised?)
- Date: Thu Apr 5 19:07:01 2001
- List-id: SCTP Discussions <discussion.sctp.de>
Andreas, I am in full agreement with your comments.
Thanks
Marc
(on behalf of Siemens ICM N MR GE DC1)
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 06:47:17PM +0200, Andreas Jungmaier wrote:
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Hello all,
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please see my comments below....
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> At least I would like a portability between UNIX and Windows.
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> But I'm afraid that the sockaddr_in is different (please correct me if I'm
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> wrong). ASCII format (or char[]) will work everywhere.
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winsock.h does provide
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struct sockaddr
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struct sockaddr_in
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so that should not be the problem.
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> > > let's not reinvent the wheel
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> > Even though it didn't sound like it, I actually agree with you and don't
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> > like the idea of passing addresses around as ascii data. I'm just
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> > trying
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> > to understand the portability requirements of this interface.
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> > If the interface is to be slightly less portable, but more familiar to
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> > most, then it should probably rely on some of the popular standardized
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> > data types. Personally, I'm happy with func(sockaddr *addr, int
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> > addr_len)
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> > where addr points to either a sockaddr_in or sockaddr_in6. This would
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> > also seem to be in line with the sctp socket draft standard. As for the
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> > other data types used by the interface, it would seem reasonable to
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> > assume the POSIX 1003.1g definitions for intN_t, uintN_t, size_t, etc.
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> > What are the portability requirements of this interface?
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I think the way to eventually go will be back to what I had
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before - a union of sockaddr, sockaddr_in, and maybe sockaddr_in6.
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After all that does not cause any portability problems at all
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(it is a plain C union :-)
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But please let me repeat: unless there should be a majority of the
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Siemens M3UA developers supporting that change, I will not do so
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until after the the SCTP and M3UA bakeoffs.
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Best regards,
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Andreas Jungmaier
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