On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote:
>
> On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote:
>
> > > name: gnut
> > > desc: Command line gnutella client
> > > license: GPL
> >
> > Didn't get to check the package too much, but did check the
> > software. Seems to have problems when finding an interface on Alpha
> > (segfaults). I'll look into it and hopefully can supply a patch.
>
> FYI, it's not gnut's problem on alpha that causes this, but rather a
> problem elsewhere. The address family isn't getting set for TCP/IP
> addressed interfaces, so gnut's interface/address iteration code can't
> seem to find an interface that has an AF_INET address family set (and then
> tries to memcpy from empty areas in memory, which is always bad).
>
> I'm looking into this and it *might* even be a kernel problem, believe it
> or not. Certainly would explain a few other similar problems that I've
> been having with other packages (nmap, strobe, sniffit, etc).
>
> At any rate, I tried commenting out the code that ignors the loopback
> interface and it seems to work ok so far.
Spoken too soon. After a bit more prodding, it does, in fact, look like
an error. I'm working on this especially since it may solve the other
problems as well :-) Sorry for the misinfo...
C
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