Uhhh nevermind. I just grabbed 4.2.0RC2 and found that a slew of fixes have already been commited.
-e Eric Liedtke wrote: >Oops forgot the message body on the last one.... > >Ok so after sleeping on it I don't think my solution was >totally in line with the beauty and simplicity of php, I >expect you should be able to pass either a hostname >or a valid ip in the addr arg. Anyway the other part >that confused me is that in the case of the gethostbyname >failure I would have thought that the inability to bind and >the PHP_SOCKET_ERROR and return FALSE should >have killed the sript, but somehow the script continued >and what's more confusing is that the system still manaed >to bind a random port? I'll through it some more.. > >-e > >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 >> >>-- >>PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> >>To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> > > -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
