Alas, one of my "To Do" comments from 4 years ago has come back to
bite me:
sock_listen(...)
{
...
/* XXX do we need to set the local host info when we're listening? */
...
}
Here's the problem: when you say
f := open(":1234", "na")
what is the behaviour you expect if the machine you're running on has
more than network interface? Currently, the 'host' part of a "na"
address has to be empty because you can only accept a connection on the
local host. However my machine has 3 interfaces: 127.0.0.1, 192.168.1.1
and 63.95.167.154.
How does this sound: ":1234" means accept on all interfaces this
machine has. Otherwise it must be specified: "192.168.1.1:1234".
This same sort of thing applies to send:
f := open(":1234", "n")
*always* means 127.0.0.1 - which sounds a bit hard-ass. The
alternative is that to connect to a socket, the host must always be
specified. [The latter sounds a little "un-Icon" and the former is
rich with potential for confusion because my server happened to be
listening at 192.168.1.1 but I tried to connect to 127.0.0.1.]
-s
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