On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 12:30:52AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Assuming that my "compatibility argument" is not considered valid. What
> > I really need is some good ammunition for going back to Sun to ask them
> > to change the JRE spec -- like some significant kernel features or Linux
> > applications that relies on this new bind() behavior.
>
> The XNS specification seems loose enough to allow the Linux behaviour. I don't
I cant see why..
> think we should however adopt it as default behaviour. Programs that dont care
> about addresses use INADDR_ANY.
IMHO it does _not_ allow Linux behaviour:
----(Snipped from SUS)----
NAME
bind - bind a name to a socket
[...]
RETURN VALUE
Upon successful completion, bind() returns 0. Otherwise, -1 is returned and errno
is set to indicate the error.
ERRORS
The bind() function will fail if:
[...]
[EADDRNOTAVAIL]
The specified address is not available from the local machine.
-----------------------------
So binding to a non-local ip address shouldnt be allowed because it "is not
available from the local machine"; even if the machine has a dynamic ip.
Alberto Bertogli
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