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|> |my socket works very fine, but I'm wondering if passing sizeof(sin) instead
|> |of sizeof(struct sockaddr) is wise.
|
|My question was more porting the size expected by bind. Is it mandatory
|sizeof(struct sockaddr) or sizeof(struct_we_use) ?
|I just do like kHTTPd (+ IPv6)
they returns the same result ;)
|what does bind() use this size for? if the given size is wrong, wouldnt it fool
|some pointers?
look at: net/ipv4/af_inet.c::inet_bind
if the "addr_len" parameter is less than sizeof(struct sockaddr_in)
inet_bind returns -EINVAL.
addr_len is, also, passed to the raw socket bind function (if any)... and no more.
Hope these helps.
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