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Re: [PATCH] Re: IP_MULTICAST_IF et all / Winsock[2] value conflict
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> What I can comment about is what happened when loading set/getsockopt.
> Regardless of being dynamically loaded from wsock32 or ws2_32, they
> will always be the Winsock2 version on a Winsock2 system. wsock32 is
> more or less just a stub which redirects function calls to ws2_32.dll.
Agreed, but I was under the impression that the wsock32 stub should have
been doing the translation for us. Otherwise, an application designed
to work with wsock32 would be using incorrect values.
> However, I hope that's a non-issue now that Winsock1 has been dropped.
I hope so too. I'll test as soon as it is possible. Thanks again.
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