On Aug 10, 2004, at 8:26 PM, Michael Tuexen wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> it would be very helpful for me (and some others) if the 1.6.5 release
> could have some support for SCTP.
>
> To see what kind of change this requires I'm appending the diff files
> for libguile/socket.[ch].
>
> What are the changes (for socket.h)?
>
> - add to prototypes for sctp-recvmsg and sctp-sendmsg.
>   These changes are #ifdefed.
>
> What are the changes (for socket.c)?
>
> - include <netinet/sctp.h> if available. #ifdefed.
> - add two line of code to initialize socket structures to zero.
>   (If you do not like these two changes, take them out. They helped
>    for some SCTP implementations not doing this in the kernel. At
>    least one of them is fixed now).
> - add sctp-recvmsg and sctp-sendmsg wrapper functions. These are 
> #ifdefed.
> - add some constants, if they are available. #ifdefed.
>
> What is still missing (configure.in)?
>
> - A check for the existence of netinet/sctp.h. If yes, define 
> HAVE_NETINET_SCTP_H
> - A check if sctp_sendmsg is contained in libsctp. If yes, define 
> HAVE_SCTP_SENDMSG
>   an add libsctp to the list of libraries to be used.
> - A check if sctp_recvmsg is contained in libsctp. If yes, define 
> HAVE_SCTP_RECVMSG
>   an add libsctp to the list of libraries to be used.
>
> (libsctp is located on some platforms in /usr/lib, /usr/local/lib and 
> /usr/local/v6/lib)
> This can be done by adding some lines to configure.in.
>
> I will test the configure.in changes and send a patch for configure.in 
> later
> this week.
>
> Please let me know if these patches can be included in the upcoming 
> 1.6.5 release.
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Best regards
> Michael
>
> <socket.c.diff><socket.h.diff>
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