[Boost-users] [asio] bug report

From: Scott Finley (sfinley_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-10 08:35:10

I have found what appears to be a bug in ASIO. From
boost/asio/detail/socket_select_interrupter.hpp, starting on line 53:

    sockaddr_in4_type addr;
    socket_addr_len_type addr_len = sizeof(addr);
    addr.sin_family = AF_INET;
    addr.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr("127.0.0.1");
    addr.sin_port = 0;
    if (socket_ops::bind(acceptor.get(), (const socket_addr_type*)&addr,
          addr_len, ec) == socket_error_retval)
    {
      boost::system::system_error e(ec, "socket_select_interrupter");
      boost::throw_exception(e);
    }

addr needs to be cleared before it is used. The failure to do this
caused the bind call to fail for me on VxWorks 6.4.

I inserted the following line right after the delcaration of addr:

    bzero((char *)&addr, sizeof(sockaddr_in4_type));

This solved the problem for me.
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