Re: CVS Update: xc (branch: trunk)

[Matthieu Herrb]

Harold L Hunt II wrote (in a message from Friday 19)
 > Matthieu,
 > 
 > The new file, prngc.c, uses sockaddr_storage.  However, I know that at 
 > least Cygwin does not have sockaddr_storage.
 > 
 > No alternative is provided and no conditional compilation is in effect 
 > to fall back to previous functionality when sockaddr_storage is not 
 > available.  This breaks the build on Cygwin.
 > 
 > What can be done to fix the build on platforms that do not have 
 > sockaddr_storage?
 > 
 > I already tried using sockaddr instead, but that is missing fields that 
 > are contained in sockaddr_storage.  Any other ideas?

Does cygwin have AF_UNIX sockets and the sys/un.h header ? If so it's
quite easy to adapt the code not to use sockaddr_storage. 

Otherwise, I'll provide a way to #ifdef out the prngd code, but then
if /dev/[u]random fails, xdm will have to abort (or run with
predictibles cookies). 

 
                                        Matthieu
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