prototype of bind in sys/socket.h

René Møller Fonseca fonseca@mip.sdu.dk
Tue Jan 9 06:44:00 GMT 2001


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

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