Warning compiling BIND 9.4.3 with ISC_SOCKET_USE_POLLWATCH defined

[Mark Andrews]

In message <Prayer.1.3.1.0901041931500.9271 at hermes-1.csi.cam.ac.uk>, Chris Thompson writes:
> Now(!) that I am aware of the existence of BIND 9.4.3, and with the
> intention of using it in production on Solaris 10 hosts, I thought 
> I ought to configure it with STD_CDEFINES=-DISC_SOCKET_USE_POLLWATCH
> as suggested by the entry for change 2489 (although I am not aware
> that we have had any problems with beta versions of 9.4.3).
> 
> However, doing this generates a compiler warning:
> 
> cc -mt  -I/usr/local/software/bind/bind-9.4.3 -I./include  
>  -I./../pthreads/include  -I../include  -I./../include  -I./.. 
>  -D_REENTRANT  -DISC_SOCKET_USE_POLLWATCH -D_XPG4_2 -D__EXTENSIONS__ 
>  -O     -c socket.c
> "socket.c", line 3167: warning: improper pointer/integer combination: arg #5
> 
> and indeed the call of manager_log there seems to have the wrong
> number of arguments. Ought I to consider this a show-stopper? 
> (That is, would BIND crash if it ever got to exercise this bit of code?
> I've been running the resulting binary on a workstation without trouble,
> but it is under very light load there.)
> 
> The C compiler is the Sun Studio 10 one, if that matters.
> 
> -- 
> Chris Thompson
> Email: cet1 at cam.ac.uk

	Just ask Sun for the fix or remove the extranious line from
	the call.
 
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