Why NGX_SOCKADDRLEN is 512?

[Igor Sysoev]

On Mar 1, 2011, at 11:59 , speedfirst wrote:

> I think this way would be better:
> 
> #if (NGX_HAVE_UNIX_DOMAIN)
> #define NGX_SOCKADDRLEN sizeof(struct sockaddr_un)
> #else
> #define NGX_SOCKADDRLEN sizeof(struct sockaddr_storage)
> #endif
> 
> sizeof(sturct sockaddr_storage) is 128 in my Linux 64bit, 512 is too
> big.

The problem that struct sockaddr_storage is relatively recent thing.


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