Packing netgraph structs

Roman Kurakin rik at cronyx.ru
Thu Jul 1 05:54:48 PDT 2004


Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:

> I'm creating Netgraph bindings for OCaml in order to play around more 
> easily with various Bluetooth and Ethernet things I'm working on.  
> It's all pretty straightforward except for the problem that the 
> netgraph message structs aren't all packed (e.g. struct ng_mesg).  
> This means that it's very difficult to serialise them in a language 
> other than C.

If this is a problem why can't you make some wrapper that will 
pack/unpack written on C,
which will be a lib for you?

rik

>
> Is there any reason why these aren't packed?  If not, I can submit a 
> diff to make them so.
>
> thanks,
>
> -- 
> Anil Madhavapeddy                                   
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> University of Cambridge                            
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