ossp-pkg/sa/sa.pod 1.4 -> 1.5
--- sa.pod 2001/10/05 11:49:10 1.4
+++ sa.pod 2001/10/05 11:55:51 1.5
@@ -107,6 +107,17 @@
specification (C<{tcp,udp}://<host>[:<port>]>) to the C<sa_addr_t> and
vice versa.
+=item B<Type Abstraction>
+
+Some other subtle details in the socket API make the life hard in
+practice: C<socklen_t> and C<ssize_t>. These two types originally were
+(and on some platforms still are) plain integers or unsigned integers
+while POSIX later introduced own types for them. This is nasty, because
+for full backward compatibility and type-correct API usage, every
+application has to check whether the newer types exists and if not
+provide own definitions which map to the still actually used integer
+type on the underlying platform. B<OSSP sa> hides all this in its API.
+
=item B<I/O Timeouts>
Each function of B<OSSP sa> is aware of a central timeout (set by
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