Closed
Bug 23641
Opened 25 years ago
Closed 25 years ago
Backward compatibility issues for NSPR 4.0
Categories
(NSPR :: NSPR, defect, P3)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
RESOLVED
FIXED
People
(Reporter: srinivas, Assigned: srinivas)
References
Details
NSPR 4.0 is not backward compatible with NSPR 3.x releases. The modifications in
NSPR 4.0 that affect backward compatibility are:
1. PR_Bind doesn't set the reuseaddr option - requires source-code modification
in clients
2. PRIOMethods is modified - recompilation required
3. Deletion of obsolete APIs - requires source-code modification. These APIs are
not widely used and so, many applications will not be affected.
4. Library name change from libnspr3.so to libpsr4.so - requires change to
configuration/makefiles for the clients
5. PR_NewTCPSocket doesn't set the SO_KEEPALIVE socket option - may require
source-code change to the client.
A set of obsolete APIs, listed in Bugzilla 23642, will be deleted.
PR_GetSockOpt
PR_SetSockOpt
PR_CreateNetAddr
PR_DestroyNetAddr
PR_GetHostName
PR_GetErrorString
Comment 2•25 years ago
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The WINNT and WIN95 implementations of PR_OpenSemaphore
and PR_OpenSharedMemory were changed to implement the
'mode' argument on Windows NT using NT security descriptors
and discretionary access-control lists. (See Bugzilla
bug #24461.)
Comment 3•25 years ago
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The size of PRNetAddr increased from 16 to 28 bytes
on non-Unix platforms.
In particular, the buffer passed to PR_AcceptRead
may need to be enlarged because of the larger
PRNetAddr size. I'm still looking into this.
Comment 4•25 years ago
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Because we try to align the _pr_in6_addr structure on
8-byte boundary, the size of PRNetAddr is 32 (rather
than 28) bytes on Windows.
Comment 5•25 years ago
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To help users of the PR_AcceptRead() function correctly specify the buffer size
for the read, a macro: PR_ACCEPT_READ_BUF_OVERHEAD is defined. An example also
suggests use of the macro in calculating buffer size and use with
PR_AcceptRead().
/cvsroot/mozilla/nsprpub/pr/include/prio.h,v <-- prio.h
new revision: 3.19.4.8; previous revision: 3.19.4.7
The macro 'PR_NetAddrInetPort' is modified to check for the PR_AF_INET6 family
on all platforms. Bugzilla 23815.
Marking fixed.
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
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