sys/socket.h - GNU Gnulib

Gnulib module: sys_socket

Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:

This header file is missing on some platforms: mingw, MSVC 9.
This header file is not self-contained on some platforms: it requires <sys/types.h> to be included first.
This header file does not define the type socklen_t on some platforms: HP-UX 10.20, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 4.0, Interix 3.5, BeOS.
This header file does not define the type struct iovec on some platforms: OpenBSD 4.4.
This header file is lacking the SHUT_RD, SHUT_WR, SHUT_RDWR macros on some platforms, despite having the shutdown functions: emx+gcc.
The struct sockaddr_storage type does not have a member ss_family on some platforms: AIX 7.1.

Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:

This header file does not declare the msg_control and msg_controllen members of struct msghdr on some platforms. This can be detected by the absence of the CMSG_FIRSTHDR macro: gnulib replacement header, old BSD