On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 07:51:00AM +0200, Roland Clobus wrote: > On Sat, 2009-09-12 at 15:57 +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote: > > I've written a patch which listens on everything returned by > > getaddrinfo. The call returns two structures, but the second bind fails > > with "address already in use". It seems the problem doesn't occur in > > Debian, because it automatically listens on both IPv4 and IPv6(?) So > > I'm a bit confused: this is a Debian bug, so the problem presumably > > exists on Debian systems. This may be different on GNU/kFreeBSD, but > > the reporter is using GNU/Linux, like the system I'm testing on.
> > Anyway, I'm attaching the patch. > That patch does not work as advertised. I get the error, and the result > (according to netstat) is that the server only listens on IPv4. > Somewhere when I upgraded to kernel 2.6.30 Pioneers broke, so I assume > that the automatic IPv6<->IPv4 bridge was removed. > I still think that this bug report now contains two bugs reports: > 1) Fixing playing games with localhost (especially for computer players) > 2) Making the server IPv6 compliant > No 1. is fixed, and that fix alone should be enough to make a new > release. > It would be nice if no 2. would be fixed, but that can be done slightly > later. Except that you've fixed #1 in a manner which is redundant if #2 were fixed properly. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
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