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<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=12434>
Summary: Unix-domain (local) sockets do not support
getsockname() or getpeername()
Project: The GNU Hurd
Submitted by: marcus
Submitted on: Wed 03/23/05 at 21:18
Category: Hurd Interfaces
Severity: 1 - Wish
Priority: 1 - Later
Item Group: Compatibility
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Originator Name:
Originator Email: "Deven T. Corzine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Open/Closed: Open
Reproducibility: Every Time
Size (loc): None
Effort: 0.00
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Details:
Hi folks...
I'll start with a very brief introduction -- I just joined this mailing list,
so that I could report a Hurd bug I found last night. I never used the Hurd
before yesterday, but I would be interested in working with it, if I can just
find the time...
Anyway, I was on #hug on IRC last night, talking to "bddebian", who was
having trouble getting "orbit2" (GNOME's CORBA broker) to run on the Hurd. I
offered to help, so he gave me an account on his machine and I traced the
problem, which turned out to be that getsockname() was returning a null
pathname instead of the correct pathname of the Unix-domain socket. Since
orbit2 expects this call to work, it broke the software. After I found the
problem, I stripped down the code to a 36-line test case (attached) which
exhibits the bug. Under Linux, getsockname() returns the same sockaddr_un
structure that was sent to bind(), while the Hurd is returning a null path
instead.
This morning, I took a quick glance at the Hurd sources, and noticed the
following comment on S_socket_whatis_address() in hurd/pflocal/pf.c:
/* Implement socket_whatis_address as described in <hurd/socket.defs>.
Since we cannot tell what our adress is, return an empty string as
the file name. This is primarily for the implementation of accept
and recvfrom. The functions getsockname and getpeername remain
unsupported for the local namespace. */
So it appears that no attempt was ever made to implement getsockname() or
getpeername() for Unix-domain sockets.
Since this bug (unsupported feature) may break other applications
besides orbit2, perhaps someone would like to take a stab at filling in the
gap?
Deven
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File Attachments:
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Date: Wed 03/23/05 at 21:18 Name: getsockname_bug.c Size: 883B By: marcus
Testcase for getsockname() on Unix Domain Socket
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?item_id=12434&item_file_id=2343>
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