Why the lack of networky bits in the standard library

[Alex Rønne Petersen]

On 10-12-2012 21:22, Matthew Caron wrote:
> In C, if I want to parse a UDP packet, I need to build my own offsets
> into data based off constants in:
> net/ethernet.h
> netinet/udp.h
>
> Things like:
>
> #define PACKET_DATA_OFFSET_DEFAULT (
>       ETHER_HDR_LEN + sizeof(struct iphdr) + \
>       sizeof(struct udphdr))
>
> That would be easy to port to D, if I had access to those structs and
> defines, but it doesn't seem like these have been ported over. Am I
> missing something obvious?
>
> Thanks.
>

We haven't bound all C/POSIX headers in druntime yet. There's no 
particular reason it isn't done other than nobody having gotten around 
to it.

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Alex Rønne Petersen
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