On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 09:26:16AM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: > Albert Chin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 01:28:39PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: > >> Albert Chin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >> > We created the following macro for curl. It's been tested on the > >> > following systems: > >> > >> Has the copyright been assigned to the FSF? > > > > No. I'd like to see a liberal license with this though. Curl is under > > a very liberal license. We'd like to see other programs use this macro > > for detecting socklen_t as well (lftp has adopted a derivative of it > > and KDE I think has). > > This is what M4 macros in gnulib generally use, is it ok? > > dnl Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > dnl This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation > dnl gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it, > dnl with or without modifications, as long as this notice is preserved.
Ok, I'll start working on the paperwork. > > BTW, having socklen_t doesn't mean it's used by some of the networking > > functions. Check this out: > > http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78238 > > http://www.mail-archive.com/lftp-devel@uniyar.ac.ru/msg01246.html > > Ouch. I don't think the proposed solution was good, I want to use > "socklen_t" in my code. I think we should try hard to make that > possible. I don't want to make my code unreadable to cater to broken > platforms. > > However, adapting your M4 code first would solve to problem on several > platforms, and we can return to the HP-UX problem later. I haven't > encountered that problem on HP-UX myself, so perhaps it doesn't always > happen. Sounds good. Only lftp and KDE have encountered the problem. -- albert chin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) _______________________________________________ bug-gnulib mailing list bug-gnulib@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnulib
