[PATCH] Re: IP_MULTICAST_IF et all / Winsock[2] value conflict
Brian Ford
Brian.Ford@flightsafety.com
Tue Oct 18 14:32:00 GMT 2005
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Oct 3 12:25, Brian Ford wrote:
> > On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > No, let's change it. Winsock2 is the way to go. Winsock1 is just old
> > > stuff. Since Cygwin is using Winsock2 when running on a 98 system or
> > > above,
In some ways, I now believe this was not exactly true.
It appeared that [set|get]sockopt was formerly autoloaded from wsock32, so
maybe the values were correct. When I tried to investigate this further,
I got really confused about how this was supposed to work together.
Neither of the two possible values for IP_MULTICAST_IF seemed to work
correctly in my limited testing. But, at the same time, changing the
values for IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP did not exhibit the failure described in the
MSDN KB article either? At this point, I ran out of time and my test
system was shipped to a demo :-(.
> > > and since applications using the old/wrong Winsock1 values are
> > > broken right now anyway, there's no gain to keep the old values and
> > > force all new (and supposed to be working) applications to go through
> > > a translation stage. Let the old applications suffer, not the new ones.
> >
> > That's a reasonably convincing argument. I just wish fixing this didn't
> > require an application recompile. I didn't think that was the Cygwin
> > philosophy...<time passes> Oh, you mean do the translation only for older
> > apps? That sounds good.
>
> I've just applied a patch, which does all of that, removing the last remains
> of Winsock1 support, as well as changing the IPPROTO_IP values in
> include/cygwin/socket.h to the new Winsock2 values, as well as checking
> for the applications ABI version number so that older applications get
> the values translated into the new Winsock2 values in setsockopt/getsockopt
> on the fly.
Thank you. I didn't really mean for you to have to do it, but I haven't
had time to get back into the confusion.
> This still needs some testing.
As soon as my demo system comes back (next week or the week after), I'll
do so.
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Brian Ford
Senior Realtime Software Engineer
VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems
FlightSafety International
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