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Conference turris::digital_unix

Title:	DIGITAL UNIX(FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1)
Notice:	Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference
Moderator:	SMURF::DENHAM

Created:	Thu Mar 16 1995
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	10068
Total number of notes:	35879

10003.0. "gethostid() defined incompatibly in unistd.h & netdb.h" by EDSCLU::GARROD (IBM Interconnect Engineering) Fri May 30 1997 11:40

    Under Digital UNIX V4 there seems to be a clash in the definitions
    of "gethostid" in the include files:
    
    /usr/include/unistd.h
    and
    /usr/include/netdb.h
    
    In unistd.h it is defined as:
    
    extern long gethostid __((void));
    
    in netdb.h it is defined as:
    
    extern int gethostid __((void));
    
    the compiler of course complains if both these files are #included.
    
    Which is the correct definition? The man page implies that it
    is the "int" one in netdb.h.
    
    Note that in Digital UNIX V3 there wasn't a definition of gethostid
    in unistd.h only in netdb.h.
    
    Is this a Digital UNIX V4 bug? Which include file should I edit
    temporarily to fix this so I can get clean compiles.
    
    Dave

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
10003.1	See note 9117.2	NNTPD::"[email protected]"	Brian Haley	`Fri May 30 1997 11:52`	3
	See note 9117.2, this has already been discussed many times in this conference. [Posted by WWW Notes gateway]