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In the sockaddr_in structure...
What is the sin_zero char good for?... You after all just fill it up with "\0"...Code:struct sockaddr_in { short int sin_family; unsigned short int sin_port; struct in_addr sin_addr; unsigned char sin_zero[8]; };
Google. Networking tutorial. Networking book. In that order perhaps.
Google: http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache...lnk&cd=2&gl=ca
It's kind of like structure padding, in case extra fields need to be added in the future, I'd guess.The POSIX specification requires only three members in the structure: sin_family, sin_addr, and sin_port. It is acceptable for a POSIX-compliant implementation to define additional structure members, and this is normal for an Internet socket address structure. Almost all implementations add the sin_zero member so that all socket address structures are at least 16 bytes in size.
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