when porting from HP-UX to Linux

amitpansuria · #1 (**permalink**) 04-17-2008

helo,
i m porting HP-UX socket application to Linux SSL-socket application.
I have use htonl() in HP-UX.
so when i use it in Linux, data transf is not done and application become soem time crashed.
now when i remove htonl() in linux, then i got data but it will not proper order or some data may get lost.
so how to avoid such situation..

Regards,
Amit

andryk · #2 (**permalink**) 04-18-2008

Hi,
You will have to re-order (use of htonl) them in both side: the sender and the receiver
On most RISC processor they're already in net-byte order but you should always use htonl/s to avoid byte ordering problem especially when dealing with different plateform IMHO

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