[perl #122657] t/io/socket.t failing on hurd: peer from recv() should be empty or the remote name

On Sat Aug 30 17:17:18 2014, dom wrote:
> As reported in <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-
> bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=758718> this test (introduced as part of [perl
> #118843]) fails on Hurd. The comment from the Hurd porting team is:
> 
> "The test seems fishy to me: it is making sure that the name as
> returned
> by recv is *exactly* the same as what the server socket is bound to,
> which is 0.0.0.0:some_port but I would expect recv to return the
> actual
> IP address used in the socket, not 0.0.0.0.  It happens that Linux
> doesn't return anything at all so it goes fine there, but that's not a
> reason."

If it compared against getpeername(), would that pass?

As you say, comparing against the bind address is just plain wrong.

I don't have ready access to Hurd.

Tony


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• Re: [perl #122657] t/io/socket.t failing on hurd: peer from recv()should be empty or the remote name by Samuel Thibault
• Re: [perl #122657] t/io/socket.t failing on hurd: peer from recv()should be empty or the remote name by Svante Signell
• Re: [perl #122657] t/io/socket.t failing on hurd: peer from recv()should be empty or the remote name by Svante Signell
• Re: [perl #122657] t/io/socket.t failing on hurd: peer from recv()should be empty or the remote name by Leon Timmermans
• Re: [perl #122657] t/io/socket.t failing on hurd: peer from recv()should be empty or the remote name by Svante Signell
• Re: [perl #122657] t/io/socket.t failing on hurd: peer from recv()should be empty or the remote name by Leon Timmermans
• [perl #122657] t/io/socket.t failing on hurd: peer from recv() should be empty or the remote name by Tony Cook via RT
• [perl #122657] t/io/socket.t failing on hurd: peer from recv() should be empty or the remote name by Tony Cook via RT
• Re: [perl #122657] t/io/socket.t failing on hurd: peer from recv()should be empty or the remote name by Leon Timmermans
• Re: [perl #122657] t/io/socket.t failing on hurd: peer from recv()should be empty or the remote name by Svante Signell
• Re: [perl #122657] t/io/socket.t failing on hurd: peer from recv()should be empty or the remote name by Leon Timmermans
• Re: [perl #122657] t/io/socket.t failing on hurd: peer from recv()should be empty or the remote name by Svante Signell
• Re: [perl #122657] t/io/socket.t failing on hurd: peer from recv()should be empty or the remote name by Leon Timmermans
• Re: [perl #122657] t/io/socket.t failing on hurd: peer from recv()should be empty or the remote name by Svante Signell
• Re: [perl #122657] t/io/socket.t failing on hurd: peer from recv()should be empty or the remote name by Svante Signell
• Re: [perl #122657] t/io/socket.t failing on hurd: peer from recv()should be empty or the remote name by Leon Timmermans
• Re: [perl #122657] t/io/socket.t failing on hurd: peer from recv()should be empty or the remote name by Svante Signell
• Re: [perl #122657] t/io/socket.t failing on hurd: peer from recv()should be empty or the remote name by Svante Signell
• Re: [perl #122657] t/io/socket.t failing on hurd: peer from recv()should be empty or the remote name by Svante Signell