Dave Burgess <burgess@cynjut.neonramp.com> écrit :
> 
> The definition of getpeername() used in the (currently unused) LOGGING
> code segment calls for a "sockaddr_in sin" as the second argument to
> getpeername().  The getpeername() man page says that the second argument 
> should be a sockaddr structure.

It is because all networking functions (getpeername(), bind() and so on)
take a struct sockaddr * as an argument and this structure is a generic
address structure.  But in real life, one has to use a real structure such
as struct sockaddr_in which represent an IP address, port...  So those
networking functions take in fact a struct sockaddr_in * casted as a struct
sockaddr *.  It is like that since a long time and it's perfectly OK.

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