On Monday 02 June 2008, Nico Schottelius wrote: > Mike Frysinger [Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 12:13:07PM -0400]: > > [socklen_t] > > > > ive committed this then to gpm-1 ... configure checks for the socklen_t > > type and all gpm code assumes socklen_t is available > > Thanks for your work, mike! > > I am not sure, whether this check > > AC_CHECK_TYPE([socklen_t], [unsigned int]) > > is senseful, as we define socklen_t for us as unsigned int, although we > should not care about. Thus, if posix changes, gpm breaks. i dont see how you could make a check that would automatically stay conformant to a standard ? if the system does not define socklen_t, then there is no way for us to know what an appropriate size is. we have to default to what the standard says. -mike
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