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* [LTP] [PATCH 1/1] lib: Document the endianity in tst_get_unused_port()
@ 2019-06-07  7:17 Petr Vorel
  2019-06-07  7:34 ` Christian Amann
  2019-06-07 11:36 ` Cyril Hrubis
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Petr Vorel @ 2019-06-07  7:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: ltp

To prevent confusing [1]:

    if you want to print the port you actually have to use
    ntohs() function to convert it to the host endianity. And if you are
    passing that value in the sockaddr_in structure you must not use the
    htons() since the value is already in the correct byte order.

[1] http://lists.linux.it/pipermail/ltp/2019-June/012289.html

Signed-off-by: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
---
 lib/safe_net.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/safe_net.c b/lib/safe_net.c
index 970a2aba3..abebd1899 100644
--- a/lib/safe_net.c
+++ b/lib/safe_net.c
@@ -373,6 +373,9 @@ int safe_gethostname(const char *file, const int lineno,
 	return rval;
 }
 
+/*
+ * @return port in network byte order.
+ */
 unsigned short tst_get_unused_port(const char *file, const int lineno,
 	      void (cleanup_fn)(void), unsigned short family, int type)
 {
-- 
2.21.0


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