#163: use libssh2_socket_t for socket type
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Reporter: sldr | Owner: bagder
Type: defect | Status: assigned
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: API | Version: 1.2.4
Keywords: | Blocking:
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Comment(by sldr):
Replying to [comment:4 roadrunn]:
> I may not be doing things correctly, but I cast my socket type to int
when calling libssh2_session_startup. This works in all (Windows x86/IA64,
Linux i386/ia64, and HP/UX).
With a 64bit program if you open enough sockets and/or handles (since a
socket is a handle on windows), you could get a value that wouldn't fit in
32bits so cast would cause failure in libssh2 when it was finally passed
it to a OS API (ie: Win32 API). This doesn't happen very often since most
programs don't open lots of handles and sockets that might cause the value
to get large enough that it doesn't fit in 32bits.
FYI: Ignore the 32 in Win32 because the 64bit APIs are also called Win32
APIs except when you are running in WOW64 witch means they are 32bit APIs.
:-) (bad windows joke)
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