Eric Liedtke wrote:
> I'm new in town here, so to speak, so I'm not sure about
> proper protocol here, but I found,what I feel is a problem
> in the socket extension code. Specifically in the socket_bind
> function. I was working with a friends code and it was
> trying to bind to port 80, however when I would check with
> sockstat it was showing the process bound to a random port.
> So I started poking around and found that if the addr argument,
> (which by the way defaults to 0 in the code I was working with)
> wasn't a valid name the bind function was set to fail because
> the gethostbyname test would fail. I would propose that if
> the sock_family is AF_INET the addr arg should be a valid
> ip address and that a gethostbyname function be made
> available to do name to ip conversion if a user needs it.
> We already know we are binding an AF_INET family socket
> by the case statement so all we should need to do is fill in the
> address and the AF_INET into the sockaddr. I'd be happy
> to provide an implementation, but wanted to see others
> opinions before I did anything.
>
> Eric Liedtke
>
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