[BUG] libassuan's (HEAD) assuan-domain-connect.c fails on systems with 4.3BSD sockets

[Werner Koch]

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 10:47:03 -0500, Nicholas Wourms said:

> [I tried filing this on gnupg's gnats, but everytime I hit submit, it
> gave me a "malformed multipart POST"]

Hmm, Mozilla works fine for me.

> SYSTEM:
> CYGWIN_NT-5.0 1.5.8(0.116/4/2) 2004-02-19 18:59 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin

It is unlilely that we are going to support Cygwin in the near future.

> fully compatible with the newer versions since:
> A)It lacks the msg_flags member
> B)The msg_control & msg_controllen members are called msg_accrights &
>    msg_accrightslen

I expected that because Stevens explains these things in details.  Our
primary goal is to support Free OSes, thus we don't care about other
systems for now.  There are also a couple of other things which won't
work (e.g. the lack of funopen(3)).

> Since libassuan will become a requirement in future versions of gnupg,
> I think it would be worthwile to fix this.

We will keep gnupg 1.x alive for all platforms currently supported;
those system will then only miss the new S/MIME and gpg-agent
features.


Thanks,

  Werner

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