Re: [PATCH 5/5] struct sockaddr_storage->ss_family is not portable

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On Thu, 11 Mar 2010, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:

> Many of our supported platforms do not have this declaration, for
> example solaris2.6 thru 2.7.  Lack of ss_family implies no IPV6
> support, so we can wrap all the ss_family references in an ifndef
> NO_IPV6, and assume sockaddr_in otherwise.

While this probably is ok as such, you can actually do the same without 
accessing the sockaddr_storage->ss_family; just cast it to (const struct 
sockaddr*) and use ->sa_family instead, that should work just as well, as 
far as I know.

// Martin
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