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Old 02-16-2009, 12:16 AM   #1
sudhansu
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Typecast struct sockaddr in struct sockaddr_in


Hello Everybody,
I have a very interesting problem while making a simple client server program in c. i am wokring on linux kernel-2.6.23.1 . While creating a socket for my server program i want to bind it with a port. for which i used following code


struct sockaddr_in sad;
memset((char *)&sad,0,sizeof(sad)); /* clear sockaddr structure */
sad.sin_family = AF_INET; /* set family to Internet */
sad.sin_addr.s_addr = INADDR_ANY; /* set the local IP address */
sad.sin_port = htons((u_short)port);/* set the port number */

if (bind(welcomeSocket, (struct sockaddr *)&sad, sizeof(sad)) < 0)
{
fprintf(stderr,"bind failed\n");
return 1;
}

Now in this bind call sad is converted in struct sockaddr *. Now after this code what i want to do for some experiment

struct sockaddr *a;
struct sockaddr_in *b;
a=(struct sockaddr *)&sad;
b=(struct sockaddr_in *)a;

now i want to extract all the members of structure b .. but i am getting incompatible reference pointer error. I just want to typecats a struct sockaddr into sockaddr_in and extract all of its data members. Please help me.

Thank you in advance...
 
Old 02-17-2009, 10:33 AM   #2
stevexyz
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You could extract them like this:

((struct sockaddr_in *)&sad)->sin_family
((struct sockaddr_in *)&sad)->sin_port
((struct sockaddr_in *)&sad)->sin_addr

Cheers, Steve
 
  


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