Re: [Boost-users] [asio] bug report

From: Christopher Kohlhoff (chris_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-10 08:49:57

Scott Finley writes:
> 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 know nothing at all about VxWorks so please excuse my ignorance. Does VxWorks
have a POSIX programming interface or is it based on Win32? The
socket_select_interrupter class is only intended for Win32. POSIX
implementations are supposed to use pipe_select_interrupter instead.

Cheers,
Chris