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hi tony,

Tony Finch wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, OpenMacNews wrote:
>> hopefully, a little more digging/understanding will reveal whether the
>> fix -- in fact -- addresses the getpeername() issue you'd suggested.
> 
> That Cyrus patch indicates an OS bug, so I had a look at the FreeBSD
> revision history and found the following. This change is not present
> in the Darwin source, so it's a bug in Mac OS X.
> 
> --------------------------------
> 2003/01/22 13:13:13 ume
> 
>   /home/ncvs/src/sys/kern/uipc_usrreq.c,v
>     1.103 +2 -0
> 
> getpeername() returns with no error but didn't fill struct sockaddr
> correctly against PF_LOCAL.  It seems that the test always fails then
> sockaddr was not filled.  So, I added else clause for workaround.
> I doubt if it is right fix.  However, it is better than nothing.  I
> found that NetBSD has same potential problem.  But, fortunately,
> NetBSD has equivalent else clause.
> 
> MFC after:      1 week
> --------------------------------
> 
> Tony.

ok, thx! for tracking this down ...

i'll synopsize as best as i can, and see if i can get the info in front of 
Jordan Hubbard et al
on [EMAIL PROTECTED] (who knows what the right forum is !?).

cheers,

richard

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