Re: socklen_t instead of size_t in struct cmsghdr

[Jakub Jelinek <jakub@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 10:23:26PM +0400, kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> > Yes, but the different alignment is because of the 64bit type in struct
> > cmsghdr.
> 
> No! That's problem. Alignment of cmsgs is forced to unsigned long.
> Look at macros CMSG_*
> 
> cmsgs may contain qword aligned objects (which also require translation,
> by the way). It is problem.
> 
> F.e. I forced 32bit alignment in rtnetlink to help you and Dave.
> But thing, which is allowed there, can be not allowed with cmsgs.
> At least bad alignment smells like you are going to emulate
> 64bit interface on top of 32bit one. 8)

Let's wait for DaveM then, worst case I'll hack some %sp munging so that the
cmsg fixup is not done in situ.

        Jakub