Network.Socket endian problem?

[Ferenc Wagner]

Tomasz Zielonka <tomasz.zielonka at gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 03:54:59PM -0600, Mark Hills wrote:
>> It does expect the address to be in network byte order instead of host
>> byte order, which is usually done using htons and htonl. This seems to
>> do what you want (running SUSE 10.1 on an Intel box):
>
> Who agrees with me that it would be nice if network libraries used host
> byte order in their interface? Or at least they could use an abstract
> data type, whose byte order would be unobservable.

Why is this trapdoor present in the C library?
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                                                      Feri.