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Fix malfunction of socket functions on HP-UX in 64-bit mode. * m4/socketlib.m4 (gl_SOCKETLIB): Add comment. * m4/extensions.m4 (AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS): Define _HPUX_ALT_XOPEN_SOCKET_API. * modules/accept (Depends-on): Add 'extensions'. * modules/getpeername (Depends-on): Likewise. * modules/getsockname (Depends-on): Likewise. * modules/getsockopt (Depends-on): Likewise. * modules/recvfrom (Depends-on): Likewise. * doc/posix-functions/accept.texi: Mention the HP-UX socklen_t problem. * doc/posix-functions/getpeername.texi: Likewise. * doc/posix-functions/getsockname.texi: Likewise. * doc/posix-functions/getsockopt.texi: Likewise. * doc/posix-functions/recvfrom.texi: Likewise.
author Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
date Sat, 27 Jan 2018 10:57:59 +0100
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@node getpeername
@section @code{getpeername}
@findex getpeername

POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getpeername.html}

Gnulib module: getpeername

Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@item
On Windows platforms (excluding Cygwin), error codes from this function
are not placed in @code{errno}, and @code{WSAGetLastError} must be used
instead.
@item
On HP-UX 11, in 64-bit mode, when the macro @code{_HPUX_ALT_XOPEN_SOCKET_API}
is not defined, this function behaves incorrectly because it is declared
to take a pointer to a 64-bit wide @code{socklen_t} entity but in fact
considers it as a pointer to a 32-bit wide @code{unsigned int} entity.
@end itemize

Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@item
Some platforms don't have a @code{socklen_t} type; in this case this function's
third argument type is @samp{int *}.
@end itemize