Winsock call to UNIX

Thu Sep 30 23:42:00 GMT 1999

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zhang, John [ mailto:John.Zhang@neonsoft.com ]
>> I installed Be 20.1, finished porting on NT 40. compiled with
> libwinsock32.a.
> Now the socket calls work fine on NT when a client and a 
> server talking to
> each other.
> But when calling from NT to a UNIX (server or client), 
> sockets never go
> thru, i.e. a ported application cannot talk to the original UNIX
> application. 

Maybe a little/big endian issue? You cannot use constructions like this:
char *buf[SIZE];
int x;
/* read in the buffer here */
memcpy((void *)&x, buf+X_OFFSET, sizeof(int)); /* WRONG! */
You should use the htons() and htonl() functions on win32 in order to
correct the little/big endian problem.
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