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- .nr H2 1
- .\".ds RH "Address representation
- .br
- .ne 2i
- .NH
- \s+2Internal address representation\s0
- .PP
- Common to all portions of the system are two data structures.
- These structures are used to represent
- addresses and various data objects.
- Addresses, internally are described by the \fIsockaddr\fP structure,
- .DS
- ._f
- struct sockaddr {
- short sa_family; /* data format identifier */
- char sa_data[14]; /* address */
- };
- .DE
- All addresses belong to one or more \fIaddress families\fP
- which define their format and interpretation.
- The \fIsa_family\fP field indicates the address family to which the address
- belongs, and the \fIsa_data\fP field contains the actual data value.
- The size of the data field, 14 bytes, was selected based on a study
- of current address formats.*
- Specific address formats use private structure definitions
- that define the format of the data field.
- The system interface supports larger address structures,
- although address-family-independent support facilities, for example routing
- and raw socket interfaces, provide only 14 bytes for address storage.
- Protocols that do not use those facilities (e.g, the current Unix domain)
- may use larger data areas.
- .FS
- * Later versions of the system may support variable length addresses.
- .FE
-