socket: can't find where is sockaddr

ravi.xolve · 19-03-2008, 01:26 AM

http://pastebin.com/m42b627b9
here when I compile it gcc gives the error "cannot convert to a pointer type" for line 24. I tried to find where struct sockaddr is defined but can't find. man pages say no thing about it.

Please help.

mehulved · 19-03-2008, 01:59 AM

Try sys/socket.h file. It should have your struct socketaddr defined, line 218 as per the libraries I have got.
It looks something like

Code:

struct sockaddr {
	unsigned char	sa_len;		/* total length */
	sa_family_t	sa_family;	/* address family */
	char		sa_data[14];	/* actually longer; address value */
};