Re: rawsock on windows

[Sam S. <sd...@gn...>]

> * Daniel Jour <qna...@tz...> [2016-09-02 00:33:01 +0200]:
>
>> all you need to do is "#include <netdb.h>" unconditionally.
>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2011-05/msg00338.html
>
> Hm, I think I was a bit unclear about the issue that I have in
> mind. Sure we can unconditionally include netdb.h. But we also have no
> way to check whether the functions it declares are actually
> available. gnulib doesn't (AFAIK) define (e.g.) HAVE_SETNETENT either,
> even if it provides a replacement.
>
> Thus we'd get completely unfunctional RAWSOCK:NETWORK and
> RAWSOCK:PROTOCOL functions, which is IMO worse than not binding
> functions to these symbols at all. (The later can and is tested with
> BOUNDP already)
>
> Or am I missing something here?

If gnulib provides the functions, I expect them to do something useful.
If they are just stubs returning NIL or raising exception on all inputs,
I think you should report that as a bug to gnulib.

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