[Mono-dev] Non-TCP/IP socket access

[Andy Hume]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mono-devel-list-bounces at lists.ximian.com 
> [mailto:mono-devel-list-bounces at lists.ximian.com] On Behalf 
> Of Robert Jordan
> Sent: 04 August 2011 13:25
> To: mono-devel-list at lists.ximian.com
> Subject: Re: [Mono-dev] Non-TCP/IP socket access
[...]
> >>>> Currently other socket types are blocked.  This occurs
> > [...]
> >>> They are really blocked on purpose, but this is not set in stone.
> >>> You could, for example, provide patches that, for unknown 
> >>> (but not 
> >>> limited to) AFs, simply assume that the specified sockaddr
> >>> is of the
> >>> generic type "struct sockaddr_storage"
> >>> (see RFC 2553). All Unixes (including OSX) and even 
> >>> Windows support 
> >>> this type.
> >>>
[...]
> > So what's the best way to progress this? :-)  Is there 
> > something I can 
> > do?  CC the people who've worked on sockets perhaps?
> 
> Please file a bug at http://bugzilla.xamarin.com/ and attach 
> the patch or a github pull request.
> 
Git makes my head hurt. :-,(

Bug created http://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=262

Thanks
Andy