new mmap() module (for windows) and license choice

2009-02-09 Thread Mike Frysinger
i wrote a mmap/munmap replacement for windows for another project of mine after i got it working, i realized that ive used gnulib in quite a bit of things and it kind of sucks that there is no mmap module already. so i looked at contributing it to gnulib and had some questions regarding copyri

Re: winsock: needs access to SOCKET in application code

2009-02-09 Thread Bruno Haible
Simon, > +/* This function is useful it you create a socket using gnulib's > + Winsock wrappers but needs to pass on the socket handle to some > + other library that only accepts sockets. */ > +#if WINDOWS_SOCKETS > +static inline SOCKET > +gl_fd_to_handle (int fd) > +{ > + return _get_osfhan

Re: The havelib module

2009-02-09 Thread Sylvain Beucler
On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 12:42:33AM +0100, Bruno Haible wrote: > Sylvain Beucler wrote: > > > > I got confused because `./configure --help` documents > > > > '--with-libmylib-prefix', but doesn't mention '--with-mylib'. > > If you use AC_LIB_LINKFLAGS, there is no --with[out]-mylib option, > only a

Re: winsock: needs access to SOCKET in application code

2009-02-09 Thread Simon Josefsson
This thread never resulted in a change, but I need one now. I re-read the earlier discussions, and some points: 1) It is useful if the gl_fd_to_socket function is available on all systems, to avoid ugly #if's in code that uses it. Corollary: declaring it in sys/socket.h seems wrong because