On 08/16/2015 12:33 AM, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Aug 2015, Razvan Cojocaru wrote:
>
>> Known bug #76 [1] states that "the SOCKET type in Win64 is 64 bits
>> large (and thus so is curl_socket_t on that platform), and long is
>> only 32 bits. It makes it impossible for curl_easy_getinfo() to return
>> a socket properly with the CURLINFO_LASTSOCKET option as for all other
>> operating systems."
>
>> 174 *(long long *)param_longp = sockfd;
>
> That could be done, but then that'd break existing programs that use
> CURLINFO_LASTSOCKET where long and long long are not the same size. So
> no, that is unfortunately not a good fix.
>
> I think a better fix is probably to introduce a CURLINFO_LASTSOCKET
> replacement that simply returns a pointer to a curl_socket_t instead of
> a long.

Fair enough, will CURLINFO_LASTSOCKET_CROSSPLATFORM do? I'll send out a
patch once we're agreed on the naming.

Thanks,
Razvan
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