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<H1>OpenBeOS Network Kit: R5 compatibility</H1>
<P>Unfortunatly, R5 and sooner (net_server based) network stack development header file (/develop/headers/be/net/socket.h) definition of
network structures and constantes are not BSD standard ones.<BR>
BONE, otherwise, try to follow at best these standards definitions which,
in turn, break binary compatibility with R5 network apps compiled for R5 network stack.<BR>
Hence why you needs to link against libsocket.so, libbind.so and libbnetapi.so BONE apps instead of
R5 libnet.so and libnetapi.so libraries...
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<P>So, here we are. By design, we must:
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<LI>Provide backward binary compatibility with old, non-standard, network definitions used
by apps linked against R5 network stack;
<LI>But use the standard/de-facto BSD network definitions, to increase Unix network apps ports ease under
OpenBeOS.
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<P>Network definitions differences:
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<TH>Item<TH width="25%">R5 stack<TH width="25%">BONE stack<TH width="25%">OpenBeOS stack
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<TD><font color=#0000A0>socket.h</font> header file
<TD><font color=#0000A0>be/net/socket.h</font>
<TD><font color=#0000A0>be/bone/sys/socket.h</font>
<TD><font color=#0000A0>posix/sys/socket.h</font>
<TR bgcolor=#E5E5E5><TD>SOCK_DGRAM<TD>1<TD>2<TD>idem as BONE
<TR bgcolor=#E5E5E5><TD>SOCK_STREAM<TD>2<TD>1<TD>idem as BONE
<TR bgcolor=#E5E5E5><TD>SOCK_RAW<TD>not defined<TD>3<TD>idem as BONE
<TR bgcolor=#E5E5E5><TD>SOCK_MISC<TD>not defined<TD>255<TD>idem as BONE
<TR bgcolor=#E5E5E5><TD>SOL_SOCKET<TD>1<TD>0xffffffff<TD>idem as BONE
<TR bgcolor=#E5E5E5><TD>SO_DEBUG<TD>1<TD>0x00000004<TD>idem as BONE
<TR bgcolor=#E5E5E5><TD>SO_REUSEADDR<TD>2<TD>0x00000040<TD>idem as BONE
<TR bgcolor=#E5E5E5><TD>SO_NONBLOCK<TD>3<TD>SO_NONBLOCK<TD>idem as BONE
<TR bgcolor=#E5E5E5 valign="top"><TD>sockaddr
<TD><TT>struct sockaddr {<BR>
&nbsp;&nbsp;unsigned short sa_family;<BR>
&nbsp;&nbsp;char sa_data[10];<BR>
};</TT>
<TD><TT>struct sockaddr {<BR>
&nbsp;&nbsp;uint8 sa_len;<BR>
&nbsp;&nbsp;uint8 sa_family;<BR>
&nbsp;&nbsp;uint8 sa_data[30];<BR>
};</TT>
<TD>idem as BONE
<TR bgcolor=#E5E5E5><TD>shutdown()
<TD>not defined<TD>defined<TD>idem as BONE
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<TD><font color=#0000A0>in.h</font> header file
<TD><font color=#0000A0>be/net/netinet/in.h</font>, which in turn include <BR>
<font color=#0000A0>be/net/socket.h</font>
<TD><font color=#0000A0>be/bone/netinet/in.h</font>
<TD><font color=#0000A0>posix/netinet/in.h</font>
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<H6>Philippe Houdoin, January 2nd, 2004</H6>
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