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Emacs should use socklen_t for socket lengths

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From: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: "bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>,
	Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Subject: Re: bug#8277: Emacs should use socklen_t for socket lengths
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 16:36:15 -0400

On 3/20/2011 3:22 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 11:53:58 -0700
>> From: Paul Eggert<eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
>> CC: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
>>
>> On 03/20/2011 11:45 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>>> My understanding of his comments is that he was thinking about
>>>>> building Emacs under Cygwin and/or Mingw, and that it's those ports
>>>>> these fixes are designed for, not the native MS-Windows port.
>>> The MinGW build and the native MS-Windows port of Emacs are one and
>>> the same, there's no other MinGW build of Emacs.
>>
>> Thanks, I didn't know that.  In that case I expect his comments
>> were aimed more at the Cygwin port.
>
> But for Cygwin, nt/inc/sys/socket.h is not relevant.  Files under nt/
> are used only by the native Windows build.  I expect Cygwin to use
> sys/socket.h from its system headers, and I don't think it includes
> ws2tcpip.h (but I could be wrong).

You're right.

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