From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Pablo Neira <pablo@eurodev.net>
Subject: endian issue in conntrack_netlink
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 23:09:24 +0200
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Cc: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
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Hi Harald,

while working on the conntrack tool I've observed that conntrack_netlink 
  uses cpu_to_be64, htonl... to flip bits depending on the architecture. 
Is this some kind of portability issue?

BTW, what is the equivalence of be64_to_cpu in userspace? Thanks!

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Pablo