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Re: Dawrin- why does pinky SIGBUS


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: Dawrin- why does pinky SIGBUS
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 11:27:08 -0700
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mwoehlke <address@hidden> writes:

> That said, given the address when I set a breakpoint there, I am
> guessing it is the system getaddrinfo?

Yes, that's right.  I installed the following patch; does it fix
things for you?

2006-09-27  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>

        * lib/canon-host.c (canon_host_r): Work around bug in Darwin 7.9.0
        getaddrinfo.

--- lib/canon-host.c    13 Sep 2006 22:38:14 -0000      1.22
+++ lib/canon-host.c    27 Sep 2006 18:25:11 -0000
@@ -69,7 +69,10 @@ canon_host_r (char const *host, int *che
   status = getaddrinfo (host, NULL, &hints, &res);
   if (!status)
     {
-      retval = strdup (res->ai_canonname);
+      /* http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-09/msg00300.html
+        says Darwin 7.9.0 getaddrinfo returns 0 but sets
+        res->ai_canonname to NULL.  */
+      retval = strdup (res->ai_canonname ? res->ai_canonname : host);
       if (!retval && cherror)
        *cherror = EAI_MEMORY;
       freeaddrinfo (res);




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