Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 22:50:49 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: couldn't bind to local address Message-ID: <20060521055049.GE770@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <200605211204.10259.davidxu@freebsd.org> References: <200605211204.10259.davidxu@freebsd.org>
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David Xu wrote this message on Sun, May 21, 2006 at 12:04 +0800:
> It is very weired that on AMD64, bind() can not bind to local address,
> the following code prints out "bind(): Can't assign requested address".
[...]
> struct sockaddr_in addr;
[...]
> addr.sin_family = AF_INET;
> addr.sin_port = htons(9000);
> addr.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr("127.0.0.1");
You also forgot to initalized sin_len... I personally have adopted
the policy of using getsockaddr to initalize my addr's... that way
if sockaddr grows any additional fields, hopefully the kernel's
getsockaddr will properly fill them out for me...
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