What is sin_zero for?

[Jim Reid]

In article <MJD.90Oct16130739 at saul.cis.upenn.edu> mjd at saul.cis.upenn.edu (Mark-Jason Dominus) writes:

   The defininition of struct sockaddr_in in the <netinet/in.h>
   files on our suns has four members, one of which is 
		   char sin_zero[8];

   What is it for?

Nothing. It's purely to pad out the sockaddr_in struct to 16 bytes,
the size of the generic sockaddr structure in <sys/socket.h>.

		Jim