From: "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@...>
Date: 2004-08-04T02:31:33+09:00
Subject: Re: help from *nix ruby users

On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Lothar Scholz wrote:

> Why don't you write a small C level function with "offset_of" to access the
> values.  You will always run in problems with different datasizes, different
> compiler alignments, different struct's.

lothar-

never knew about offset_of...  nice macro.  however, if i were writing it in C
i could just use the stuct members couldn't i?  am i missing something here?
this should compile on any posix system:

   struct flock flock;

   flock.l_type = F_RDLCK;
   flock.l_whence = SEEK_SET;
   flock.l_start = 0;
   flock.l_len = 0;

etc. since posix stipultes these members must exist (it just doesn't say where
or if there are others before or after!)

am i missing something?

regards.


-a
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