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
