After we installed the latest Solaris patch,
109147-37, the following code fails with an
EFAULT error (14);
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
struct sockaddr_in sockaddr;
/* code snipped */
child_sock = accept(serv_soc k, (struct sockaddr*) &sockaddr, &addr_size);
/* code snipped */
}
but if I declare sockaddr as a global, everything works:
struct sockaddr_in sockaddr;
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
/* code snipped */
child_sock = accept(serv_soc k, (struct sockaddr*) &sockaddr, &addr_size);
/* code snipped */
}
I guess the problem has something to do with
byte alignment, but why would a global be properly
aligned and a local improperly aligned? 5 1866
Jim Ward wrote: After we installed the latest Solaris patch, 109147-37, the following code fails with an EFAULT error (14);
int main(int argc, char* argv[]) { struct sockaddr_in sockaddr; /* code snipped */ child_sock = accept(serv_soc k, (struct sockaddr*) &sockaddr, &addr_size); /* code snipped */ }
but if I declare sockaddr as a global, everything works:
struct sockaddr_in sockaddr;
int main(int argc, char* argv[]) { /* code snipped */ child_sock = accept(serv_soc k, (struct sockaddr*) &sockaddr, &addr_size); /* code snipped */ }
I guess the problem has something to do with byte alignment, but why would a global be properly aligned and a local improperly aligned?
Guess: You had bad luck all the years before -- it worked even
though it did not have to. Now it's biting you. With sockaddr
declared on file scope, you get unlucky again.
Maybe struct sockaddr has stricter alignment requirements than
struct sockaddr_in -- and now, for the first time, it goes wrong.
If you want people to be able to help you, give at least the
definitions of the two struct types and the source of accept().
If you try to create a compiling minimal example, you maybe
find out by yourself what the problem is.
Good luck
Michael
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Jim Ward wrote
(in article <11************ *@corp.supernew s.com>): After we installed the latest Solaris patch, 109147-37, the following code fails with an EFAULT error (14);
Then you would be best served to ask about it in
comp.unix.solar is probably instead of here.
--
Randy Howard (2reply remove FOOBAR)
Jim Ward wrote:
<snip> but if I declare sockaddr as a global, everything works:
struct sockaddr_in sockaddr;
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
<snip> I guess the problem has something to do with byte alignment, but why would a global be properly aligned and a local improperly aligned?
I just read about this. Allow me a quote from the K&R book.
"In the absence of explicit initialization, external and static
variables are guaranteed to be initialized to zero; automatic and
register variables have undefined (i.e., garbage) initial values." -
K&R, section 4.9.
hth.
~rick
Jim Ward wrote: but if I declare sockaddr as a global, everything works:
Globals are 0 initialized, locals are not.
struct sockaddr_in sockaddr;
int main(int argc, char* argv[]) { /* code snipped */ child_sock = accept(serv_soc k, (struct sockaddr*) &sockaddr, &addr_size); /* code snipped */ }
I guess the problem has something to do with byte alignment, but why would a global be properly aligned and a local improperly aligned?
It hasn't. You just got lucky :) The most common case is that addr_size
isn't initialized to sizeof(sockaddr _in) *before* calling accept().
Igmar
Igmar Palsenberg <ig***@jdimedia .local> wrote: It hasn't. You just got lucky :) The most common case is that addr_size isn't initialized to sizeof(sockaddr _in) *before* calling accept().
Yes, that was the problem! The manpage says you have to do this, but
my 1989 O'Reilly copy of "Using C on the Unix System" leaves this step
out. I need to get a new copy!
Thanks to all who answered!
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