Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <3A5B23FC.59E103E4@mip.sdu.dk> Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 15:45:16 +0100 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9=20M=F8ller?= Fonseca Organization: MIP, University of Southern Denmark X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: prototype of bind in sys/socket.h Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hi, The prototype of bind in /usr/include/sys/socket.h is: int bind (int, struct sockaddr *__my_addr, int __addrlen); Without knowing what the standard exactly suggests, I think this should have been: int bind (int, const struct sockaddr *__my_addr, int __addrlen); bind is not allowed to modify the socket address! The operating systems, that I have checked, use const in the prototype of bind. Cheers, René -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple