Re: win32 socket definition - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: win32 socket definition
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Msg-id 9837222c1001100631u2d80ec18hd2d2bb01a2e2e151@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: win32 socket definition  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 13:44, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 13:33, James Mansion
> <james@mansionfamily.plus.com> wrote:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>>
>>> There's another copy of ListenSocket[] in the BackendParameters struct.
>>> I also wonder about postmaster.c's habit of using -1 for empty slots
>>> in ListenSocket ... how safe is that for Win64?
>>>
>>
>> On Windows, it should be INVALID_SOCKET.
>
> Indeed it should, but I think we're Ok anyway. Here's the extract from
> the SDK headers.
>
> /*
>  * This is used instead of -1, since the
>  * SOCKET type is unsigned.
>  */
> #define INVALID_SOCKET  (SOCKET)(~0)
> #define SOCKET_ERROR            (-1)
>
>
> But it might be worthwhile going across all those places and setting
> them to PGINVALID_SOCKET, and typedef that as well.

That was pretty easy, provided I didn't miss too many places :-) So I
did that, and applied.

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