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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2005-12-02 18:22:10 +0000
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2005-12-02 18:22:10 +0000
commitfeb302b9f2532d190c3d424bce19478dc6825218 (patch)
treedf0d74881d027745aacabf059186a94461e00e52 /m4
parente4f62b9fcf95b5f8c23fc478d7e0162b16ed4a3a (diff)
downloadcoreutils-feb302b9f2532d190c3d424bce19478dc6825218.tar.xz
* (gl_TYPE_SOCKLEN_T): Renamed from gl_SOCKLEN_T.
Use implementation from Albert Chin, with some comments/corrections by Stepan Kasal and myself.
Diffstat (limited to 'm4')
-rw-r--r--m4/ChangeLog6
-rw-r--r--m4/socklen.m451
2 files changed, 42 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/m4/ChangeLog b/m4/ChangeLog
index fcc9f2af6..603e6e5b6 100644
--- a/m4/ChangeLog
+++ b/m4/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2005-12-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
+
+ * (gl_TYPE_SOCKLEN_T): Renamed from gl_SOCKLEN_T.
+ Use implementation from Albert Chin, with some
+ comments/corrections by Stepan Kasal and myself.
+
2005-12-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* regex.m4 (gl_REGEX): Check whether off_t can be used in a switch
diff --git a/m4/socklen.m4 b/m4/socklen.m4
index c26a2813a..7db6ba355 100644
--- a/m4/socklen.m4
+++ b/m4/socklen.m4
@@ -1,21 +1,42 @@
-# socklen.m4 serial 1
+# socklen.m4 serial 2
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.
-dnl From Simon Josefsson.
+dnl From Albert Chin.
-AC_DEFUN([gl_SOCKLEN_T],
-[
- AC_CHECK_HEADERS_ONCE(sys/types.h sys/socket.h)
- AC_CHECK_TYPE([socklen_t],, [AC_DEFINE([socklen_t], [int],
- [Map `socklen_t' to `int' if it is missing.])], [
-#ifdef HAVE_SYS_TYPES_H
-# include <sys/types.h>
-#endif
-#ifdef HAVE_SYS_SOCKET_H
-# include <sys/socket.h>
-#endif)
-])
-])
+dnl Check for socklen_t: historically on BSD it is an int, and in
+dnl POSIX 1g it is a type of its own, but some platforms use different
+dnl types for the argument to getsockopt, getpeername, etc. So we
+dnl have to test to find something that will work.
+AC_DEFUN([gl_TYPE_SOCKLEN_T],
+ [AC_CHECK_TYPE([socklen_t], ,
+ [AC_MSG_CHECKING([for socklen_t equivalent])
+ AC_CACHE_VAL([gl_cv_gl_cv_socklen_t_equiv],
+ [# Systems have either "struct sockaddr *" or
+ # "void *" as the second argument to getpeername
+ gl_cv_socklen_t_equiv=
+ for arg2 in "struct sockaddr" void; do
+ for t in int size_t "unsigned int" "long int" "unsigned long int"; do
+ AC_TRY_COMPILE(
+ [#include <sys/types.h>
+ #include <sys/socket.h>
+
+ int getpeername (int, $arg2 *, $t *);],
+ [$t len;
+ getpeername (0, 0, &len);],
+ [gl_cv_socklen_t_equiv="$t"])
+ test "$gl_cv_socklen_t_equiv" != "" && break
+ done
+ test "$gl_cv_socklen_t_equiv" != "" && break
+ done
+ ])
+ if test "$gl_cv_socklen_t_equiv" = ""; then
+ AC_MSG_ERROR([Cannot find a type to use in place of socklen_t])
+ fi
+ AC_MSG_RESULT([$gl_cv_socklen_t_equiv])
+ AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([socklen_t], [$gl_cv_socklen_t_equiv],
+ [type to use in place of socklen_t if not defined])],
+ [#include <sys/types.h>
+ #include <sys/socket.h>])])