Gerard Beekmans wrote:
It's probably something elemental to seasoned programmers. Anybody care to explain? :)
Ah found it. Apparently it's for historical reasons. The in_addr structure used to be a union of various structures. Networking changed, the union became unneeded and in_addr is left as a structure with just that single in_addr_t member.
What's a union? :) -- Gerard Beekmans /* If Linux doesn't have the solution, you have the wrong problem */ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
