Re: Connecting to a socket with a GTK application

[Tristan Van Berkom <vantr touchtunes com>]

Yep, a struct sockaddr_in can be casted to a struct sockaddr
for general purpose api calls.

you even have a type (socklen_t) to hold the size of
a given sockaddr.

Cheers,
                -Tristan

Evan Martin wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 11:07:03AM +0100, Maarten wrote:
> > But I get this error:
> >    Tipnose1.c: In function `client':
> >    Tipnose1.c:45: warning: passing arg 2 of `connect' from incompatible
> > pointer type
> [...]
> >    struct sockaddr_in sniff;
> [...]
> >    c = connect(sock, &sniff, sizeof(sniff) );
>
> This problem is unrelated to GTK.  The second parameter to connect()
> must be a sockaddr*, not a sockaddr_in*.  Google for "sockets tutorial"
> (or something like that) for more information.
>
> --
>       Evan Martin
> martine cs washington edu
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