On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 17:22, Holger Hans Peter Freyther <[email protected]> wrote: >> Why? You just won't get any datagram, AFAIU. > > Sure, you will not get any datagram and the read should fail pretty fast. > > st> Sockets.DatagramSocket local: '8.8.8.8' port: 23000 > Sockets.DatagramSocket[0.0.0.0:0] > > generates the following syscalls: > > bind(3, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(23000), > sin_addr=inet_addr("8.8.8.8")}, 16) = -1 EADDRNOTAVAIL (Cannot assign > requested address) > getsockopt(3, SOL_SOCKET, SO_ERROR, [0], [4]) = 0 > getsockname(3, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(0), > sin_addr=inet_addr("0.0.0.0")}, [16]) = 0 > > and I think the failure of the bind should be propagated as an > exception, it does not as the SOL_ERROR is not reporting any error (okay > I didn't verify that).
Yes, that's correct. Maybe it's a kernel bug. Paolo _______________________________________________ help-smalltalk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-smalltalk
