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Re: Small fix for Linux __opensock
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
- To: Wolfram Gloger <Wolfram dot Gloger at dent dot med dot uni-muenchen dot de>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 14 Feb 2002 16:29:45 -0800
- Subject: Re: Small fix for Linux __opensock
- References: <200202142359.AAA52317@max.zk-i.med.uni-muenchen.de>
- Reply-to: drepper at redhat dot com (Ulrich Drepper)
Wolfram Gloger <Wolfram.Gloger@dent.med.uni-muenchen.de> writes:
> Current glibc has failed "make check" for me when run on Linux-2.2.x;
> test_ifindex reported that it couldn't get any interfaces (everything
> is fine on Linux-2.4). The reason is that ioctl(fd, SIOCGIFCONF...)
> fails on 2.2.x for all AF_UNIX sockets. So I would suggest that we
> prefer AF_INET in __opensock() just like we did in glibc-2.2.
There is a good reason for the current order but I cannot remember
right now. I'll have to think more about it.
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