Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 05:55:40PM -0500, Steve Dickson wrote: >> Yes... one does pass pointers of struct sockaddr to the majority >> of the network system call such as bind().. but conventionally >> I've seen a lot of declare struct sockaddr as memory then typecasting >> that memory into a struct sockaddr_in pointer... > > That's just wrong. Don't do that :-) (Where have you seen this, by the way?) I believe all over the RPC code in the glibc... for one place... I have not looked at that code for a while so maybe I have it backwards... steved. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html