David Watson <bai...@users.sourceforge.net> added the comment: Attaching the C test programs I forgot to attach yesterday - sorry about that. I've also tried these programs, and the patches, on FreeBSD 5.3 (an old version from late 2004). I found that it accepted unterminated addresses as well, and unlike Linux it did not normally null-terminate addresses at all - the existing socket code only worked for addresses shorter than sun_path because it zero-filled the structure beforehand. The return-unterminated patches worked with or without the zero-filling.
Unlike Linux, FreeBSD also accepted oversized sockaddr_un structures (sun_path longer than its definition), so just allowing unterminated addresses wouldn't make the full range of addresses usable there. That said, I did get a kernel panic shortly after testing with oversized addresses, so perhaps it's not a good idea to actually use them :) ---------- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file16898/bindconn.c _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8372> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
