[ On Monday, April 7, 2003 at 09:28:35 (+0100), David Laight wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: inet_ntop() prototype question
>
> size_t got used in far too many places (unfortunately) - places where
> 'int' would be fine.

'unsigned int', please!  ;-)

>  XNET (the opengroup body) managed to kill some
> of them from the network specs before they caused too much trouble
> with binary compatibility.

Unfortunately they caused just about as much havoc in both the socket
APIs, and ABIs for some platforms, by introducing socklen_t _and_
screwing with the "buflen" parameters....

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