ws2_32: Implement automatic broadcast for UDP sockets on sendto()
Hans Leidekker
hans at codeweavers.com
Tue Dec 22 05:58:49 CST 2015
Hi Bruno,
>+ if (wsa->addr->sa_family == WS_AF_INET)
>+ {
>+ /* When the target IPv4 address ends in 255 we must always send it as
>+ * a broadcast. Trying to send the packet without setting SO_BROADCAST
>+ * results in EACCES, to avoid that we will manually enable the flag
>+ * and send the packet, after that we will restore the disabled flag
>+ * behavior. This is the most common estimate as the broadcast address
>+ * should actually be calculated using the netmask for the interface. */
It should really be calculated using the netmask, sending a broadcast packet here
is wrong if the user is not in a /24 network.
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