From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de>
To: Kevin Wilson <wkevils@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ntohs() and htons() usgae in the network stack
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:10:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <823aa8ch87.fsf@mid.bfk.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55c333c0906100708q1b0be2ffkc80c2f3258f0e681@mail.gmail.com> (Kevin Wilson's message of "Wed\, 10 Jun 2009 17\:08\:12 +0300")
* Kevin Wilson:
> So I wondered : when is ntohs(i) != htons(i) ?
Never, for ordinary endieanness. The operation is an involution, that
is, its own inverse (like mirroring).
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2009-06-10 14:08 ntohs() and htons() usgae in the network stack Kevin Wilson
2009-06-10 14:10 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2009-06-10 14:24 ` Ben Hutchings
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