netdev - Re: [PATCH] do not typedef socklen

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Date:   Mon, 27 Apr 2020 17:26:44 -0700
From:   Maciej Żenczykowski <zenczykowski@...il.com>
To:     Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
Cc:     Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>,
        Linux Network Development Mailing List 
        <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Netfilter Development Mailing List 
        <netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] do not typedef socklen_t on Android

I don't know all that much about it.  Mostly it just seems to work.

I'm quoting from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bionic_(software) ;-)

Bionic is basically a BSD licensed C library for use with Linux.
This differs from other BSD C libraries which require a BSD kernel,
and from the GNU C Library (glibc) which uses the GNU Lesser General
Public License.

For the most part it's supposed to be drop-in compatible I think,
and the kernel headers (uapi) come from some recent version of Linux.

The license and smaller size are AFAIK the main benefits.

---

Got me curious and:

I'm not actually sure what defines __ANDROID__, maybe __BIONIC__ would
be a better guard?

That seems to be defined in bionic/libc/include/sys/cdefs.h

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/bionic/+/master/libc/include/sys/cdefs.h#43

And the docs here:

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/bionic/+/master/docs/defines.md

do seem to suggest that __BIONIC__ is more equivalent to __GLIBC__