socket_util: added function sockaddr_to_string()

Create the socket_util.c library, the first function is
sockaddr_to_string(): it converts a sockaddr struct to a string
containing the IP address in a human-readable form.

1 files changed, 45 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/socket_util.h b/src/socket_util.h
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+++ b/src/socket_util.h
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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2003-2009 The Music Player Daemon Project
+ * http://www.musicpd.org
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+ * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
+ */
+
+/*
+ * This library provides easy helper functions for working with
+ * sockets.
+ *
+ */
+
+#ifndef SOCKET_UTIL_H
+#define SOCKET_UTIL_H
+
+#include <glib.h>
+
+struct sockaddr;
+
+/**
+ * Converts the specified socket address into a string in the form
+ * "IP:PORT".  The return value must be freed with g_free() when you
+ * don't need it anymore.
+ *
+ * @param sa the sockaddr struct
+ * @param length the length of #sa in bytes
+ * @param error location to store the error occuring, or NULL to
+ * ignore errors
+ */
+char *
+sockaddr_to_string(const struct sockaddr *sa, size_t length, GError **error);
+
+#endif