Thus spake Ralf Baechle:
> One of the fun things with SGI... Long time ago checked two SGI machines
> running different OS versions for reference. In one of them the values
> for SOCK_STREAM and SOCK_DGRAM are swapped compared to the other. I wonder
> why. But anyway, at that time I choose to clone the constants from the
> newer one.
Solaris is the same way...it's probably an SVR thing.
(If you're going to use sockets, though, why not use the BSD values?)
> Grrr... I somewhen moved the definitions of these constants from the
> generic header files to the machine specific header files and somehow
> lost the appropriate change to the library. I did change this with an
> eye into the future (IRIX / ABI compatibility) so we wouldn't need some
> stupid conversion routine. Actually I wonder why I was able to use
> bind, so I'll have to enquire my setup a bit closer.
FWIW, I'd prefer to keep the Linux constants, well, constant.
I don't see a problem with doing value swapping in an ABI routine
later on, a la Linux/SPARC<->Solaris.
Mike
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