Re: Bug in Guile's Posix Networking

[Andreas Rottmann]

Noah Lavine <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello all,
>
> I think there's a bug in Guile's Posix networking capabilities. I
> first noticed it a few days ago when I couldn't get the example web
> server to work on my system (Mac OS X 10.6). I was getting an error
> from the bind command saying "can't assign requested address". I
> assumed it was a system configuration problem until I discovered that
> an equivalent Python program could bind a socket without trouble.
>
> The full story is at
> http://serverfault.com/questions/231941/why-cant-i-bind-to-127-0-0-1-on-mac-os-x
> (I know the Python program listed is not quite identical to the Scheme
> one, but I tried it with an actually identical Scheme program and
> still got the same error.) Interestingly enough, I was able to bind a
> socket in Guile if I specified INADDR_ANY as its address instead of
> 127.0.0.1.
>
> I hope to work on this soon, but I thought I'd ask on this list if
> anyone has an idea what might be causing this.
>
It would be interesting to see the output of a strace-like tool on both
the working Python program and the equivalent failing Guile program.
Apparently (according to the Interwebs), on OS X this tool is called
"dtruss".

Regards, Rotty
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Andreas Rottmann -- <http://rotty.yi.org/>