linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH,TRIVIAL] AF_UNIX, accept() and addrlen

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Message-Id: <20080426.225432.128575953.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:54:32 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org
Cc:	mtk.manpages@...il.com, mtk.manpages@...glemail.com,
	andi@...stfloor.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH,TRIVIAL] AF_UNIX, accept() and addrlen

From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org>
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 02:44:45 +0100

> AF_UNIX: make unix_getname use sizeof(sunaddr->sun_family) instead of
> sizeof(short).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org>

This is just syntactic masterbation, sa_family_t is typedef'd
"unsigned short".

No system on planet earth providing the BSD sockets API uses
anything other than uint16_t or unsigned short for this.

Sorry, I'm not applying this.
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